Wireless Card 2

[jshurst]

I'm just installed Kubuntu, and set up the ndiswrapper for my card. Everything appears to be working correctly, however, when I to to settings:Network and then "Network Settings" then it says that wlan0 is Disabled.

I can open KWiFiManager and see the available networks, however I can't connect or receive an ip address.

Can anyone tell me what is going on here?

Thanks in advance.

 

[flubbard]

what do you get if you do an ifconfig from the command prompt?

-flub

 

[pentode]

I'd forget about KWifi manager for a while. In terminal mode, use ifconfig to see if it thinks you have an interface. If so, then try iwconfig to see what it is telling you.

It really helps if you can turn off WEP and WPA on your wireless router long enough to get connected in the clear. This will prove the basic interface is working.

Then you can sort out the encryption.

Linux and wireless can be a very frustating combination.

 

[jshurst]

Cool, it looks like everything is connecting and it see's my ESSID. How can I tell it to grab an ip address.

You know like on windows ipconfig/ renew.

I need to know how to tell it to connect to a network say, "My Network".

Thanks,

J

 

[pentode]

Depends on your DHCP client software. Try: DHClient wlan0

You can look in /etc/network/interfaces to see how the interfaces are set up.

 

[flubbard]

You can also run /sbin/ifconfig from the command line to see how each interface is set up.

If you want to have a particular adapater probe for a dhcp server to get an address run:

/sbin/dhclient [interface]
i.e. /sbin/dhclient eth1

Hope this helps.

- flub

 

[jshurst]

running dhclient wlan0 gets me connected. What happens if I have more than one network? How do I specify which network connect to?

 

[flubbard]

Once you have the connection established and you know that it works, you can start to use the SSID and other restrictions (like encryption) to make sure that you log onto the right network.

- flub

 

[pentode]

If your interface responds to the iwconfig commands from the command line, you can try KWifiManager - I believe it is just a graphical front-end that uses iwconfig commands. But don't quote me on that.

 

[jshurst]

Kwifimanager doesn't work for me. I can't ever select the network to connect to. I can see them, but I can't select it. Weird...

 

[pentode]

It's never worked for me either, but I know linux-wlan-ng that I use doesn't support all the iwconfig commands, so I figured that was the problem.