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Get Wifi Card AWLC6080 to work?

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Tejanorey

Technical User
Mar 23, 2002
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I have managed to get this to work only once. I used NDISWRAPPER and it worked for a few days and all the sudden stopped. I tried installing the driver and even went as far as installing the Ubuntu 7.10 OS over again to no success. Sometimes I can get my laptop to recognize it to the point that it picks up the signals but cannot connect to them but lately I haven't been able to get that. The laptop as far as the driver is recognizing that the card is inserted but doesn't give me a signal for the least anymore. I'm open for suggestions and tips. Would be greatly appreciated.

Tejanorey

"Do not attack the First Marine Division. Leave the yellowlegs alone. Strike the American Army."
- Orders given to Communist troops in the Korean War; shortly afterward, the Marines were ordered to not wear their khaki leggings to keep the enemy from immediately fleeing
 
Security issues on router?

Check the output of the following commands (as root):

ifconfig

iwconfig

Also, lsmod will show if ndiswrapper is still being loaded.
 
rey@rey-laptop:~$ ping ping: unknown host rey@rey-laptop:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:1F:B1:03:74
inet addr:192.168.0.101 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::a00:1fff:feb1:374/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:25350 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12650 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:35567335 (33.9 MB) TX bytes:1231620 (1.1 MB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc800

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:63 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:63 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:7188 (7.0 KB) TX bytes:7188 (7.0 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:02:60:9B:7B
inet addr:192.168.0.107 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::218:2ff:fe60:9b7b/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:377 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:55 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:139822 (136.5 KB) TX bytes:12973 (12.6 KB)
Interrupt:10 Memory:14000000-14010000

rey@rey-laptop:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"default"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:13:46:B8:31:DA
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
RTS thr:eek:ff Fragment thr:eek:ff
Power Management:eek:ff
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-25 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

rey@rey-laptop:~$

this is the output of both commands...

Got any suggestions? as of now the wifi card "blinks" as if its trying to connect and ofcourse the laptop says it does exist to some point but I cannot get internet through the card alone...

Tejanorey

"Do not attack the First Marine Division. Leave the yellowlegs alone. Strike the American Army."
- Orders given to Communist troops in the Korean War; shortly afterward, the Marines were ordered to not wear their khaki leggings to keep the enemy from immediately fleeing
 
This might sound crazy and I'm not sure how stable this fix is..but I managed to make the wifi card work! I went in and manually put in the ESSID and put the DHCP settings on "auto" after that..I started up firefox and walla! works..

Tejanorey

"Do not attack the First Marine Division. Leave the yellowlegs alone. Strike the American Army."
- Orders given to Communist troops in the Korean War; shortly afterward, the Marines were ordered to not wear their khaki leggings to keep the enemy from immediately fleeing
 
Hi I am brand new to Ubuntu but already love it. I am trying to install a new pcmcia card and found out that I need to install an NDISwrapper but not sure how to do this. Do you have instructions on how you were able to do this?
Thanks for any advice or help you can give a newbie!

Marc
 
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