Sam Preston schreef:
On 8/13/07, Jos van Kan
wrote: Sam Preston schreef:
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:
iwconfig wlan0 essid "my_network_name" after which 'iwconfig wlan0' shows signal strength, etc. I then try:
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 ... That's clear then. dhcp hasn't given out an IP address. What do the logs give you?
(cat /var/log/messages | grep -i dhcp) Regards, -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org