Re: [opensuse] Atheros AR5007EG Wireless Network Adapter and NetworkManager

13 Aug 2007


      Sam Preston schreef:
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On 8/13/07, Jos van Kan  wrote:
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Sam Preston schreef:
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Hi all,
I just purchased a Toshiba Satellite laptop (A215-S4807), and am
dual-booting Vista and OpenSUSE 10.2.  The laptop has an Atheros
AR5007EG wireless NIC.  After searching around, I tried installing the
ndiswrapper module and the windows drivers, and 'ndiswrapper -l'
states that everything is okay.  Unfortunately, I haven't been able to
get the connection to work.  I'm new to setting up a wireless
connetion in linux, so I'm not sure if the driver isn't working
correctly, or if I'm just not setting up the connection correctly.
'iwconfig' shows wlan0, so I try:
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iwconfig wlan0 essid "my_network_name"
after which 'iwconfig wlan0' shows signal strength, etc.  I then try:
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ifconfig wlan0 up
ifup wlan0
I get a warning that NetworkManager is being notified to set up the
DHCP connection, but I don't seem to actually connect -- I can open up
a browser and I just get a 'page not found' error.  What should I be
doing to test this connection?  Also, the NetworkManager icon in the
system tray still says that there is a connection to eth0, not wlan0.
Thanks for any help,
-Sam
Two questions:
1. Does wlan0 show an IP-address in ifconfig/iwconfig?
No, I'm not getting an IP address.  iwconfig gives:
wlan0:   IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"insecure.utah.edu"
        Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:0B:0E:26:14:C4
        Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
        Encryption key:off
        Power Management:off
        Link quality:78/100 Signal level:-46 dBmh Noise level:-96 dBm
        Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
        Tx excessive retries 676 Ivalid misc:8787 Missed beacon: 0
and ifconfig gives:
wlan0    Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:9E:28:79:F2
         inet6 addr: fe80::21b:9eff:fe28:79f2/64 Scope:Link
        UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
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        (sorry, having to type all of this since I don't have a
network connection)
I'm not sure what the ip address of the router is -- I'm trying to
connect to my school's network.  arp -a doesn't give anything, and
'route' doesn't have any routing info for the wlan0 interface.
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2. Does your WLAN use any form of encryption like WEP or WPA to connect to the
router? That must be set up as well. (Use Yast instead of the CLI, that's a lot
easier)
No, it's an open connection.  I tried using Yast, but it didn't have
an entry for my wireless card, just the wired interface (that's
probably a bad sign), and I didn't see an appropriate card under 'add
manually'.
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To test the router connection ping the router:
ping 192.168.x.x
where x.x have to be the actual values of you router's IP address.
Is there another way to get the router's address from the MAC address
given by iwconfig?
Thanks,
-Sam
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Jos van Kan                registered Linux user #152704
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