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    Seem to have drivers, but no wireless connection

    My system is the Emachines T6216:

    AMD Athlon 64
    Processor 3200+
    2.0GHz
    2000 MHz FSB
    512KB L2 Cache

    DVD+-RW 16x Double Layer

    160GB ATA Hard Drive
    512MB(added 512, and subtract 128 shared video and I have 896mb)
    8-in-1 card reader
    56K Modem

    nVIDIA GeForce 6100

    10/100 Mbps Ethernet LAN
    ________________________________

    I have added a SMC2802W 2.4GHz 54Mbps Wireless PCI Card, and am attempting to use that, since I really don't want a LAN cable running to be able to use the internet in Linux.

    I can see the network in the WLAN Assistant, and ran Kcontrol and my wireless card shows up as Eth2(built in hardwire is Eth0)... I disabled Eth0, and used Kcontrol to set to shared key, entered my key(I've double checked it multiple times), and left settings to dhcp.

    From what I can tell the drivers are fine, and I have used this particular wireless card in another machine and successfully ran kubuntu and used the internet on that.

    Screenshots:
    [img width=400 height=289]http://www.imageox.com/image/23654-snapshot1.jpeg[/img]

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    Re: Seem to have drivers, but no wireless connection

    Hi,

    Dapper drake was known to have troubles with the wep password when passing by the gui, can you try to get it by the command line ?
    it's something like :
    sudo iwconfig eth2 key <your_key>
    iwconfig (to get result of if you got connection or not
    sudo dhclient eth2

    Maybe first you will need to remove all what is known in the gui to get it working.

    Hope it helps
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      Re: Seem to have drivers, but no wireless connection

      Ok, that seemed to work quite well. Thanks!

      The only problem is that the there is auto connection when I start up. What I mean is that when I start up there is no connection right away, so I have to go to the console and go through the steps over and over. I'm assuming this has to do with key memory, am I right?

      Thanks for the help so far!
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        Re: Seem to have drivers, but no wireless connection

        Yes exactly, in fact it was the first step to get it working
        Now, you have to edit the /etc/network/interfaces to add this information :
        For example :
        kdesu kate /etc/network/interfaces

        Then add the key info under the section about the wifi interface :
        auto eth2
        iface eth2 inet dhcp
        wireless-essid <your_wifi_name>
        wireless-key <your_key>

        Save the file and restart the network service :
        sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

        It should be ok for next reboots.

        Hope it helps
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          Re: Seem to have drivers, but no wireless connection

          Awesome! Worked perfectly! Thank you very much!
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            Re: Seem to have drivers, but no wireless connection

            You're welcome, happy to see it worked It's always good to know what's going on under the GUIs...

            Cheers
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