Hi,
I tried with no success to get a weird Dell wireless miniPCI card working.
Specs : Dell wireless 1500 draft 802.11n (Broadcom chipset)
I tried ndsiwrapper and the very last windows driver from Dell's website.
The card seems unsupported.
So I went out and bought a Netgear WG111v2.
I plugged it in and, after entering the SSID and WEP key for my router it worked just fine
... for a few hours.
Then, it just stopped working,
and I haven't been able to get the connection back up.
I messed around a little, trying to figure the problem out by myself, uninstalled and reinstalled knetworkmanager . Now knetworkmanager won't even start with my session.
Anyhow, it shows two wireless devices : wmaster and wlan. Is that normal ?
I think there's also a problem with kwallet which is supposed to store the WEP key : it's not showing up anymore... And no wallet appears when I launch it (kdesu kwalletmanager). Is that related ?
I suppose I should setup the network from zero, but I don't know where to start. I'm not that familiar with Linux and Kubuntu is my first "Debian-based" distro.
Here's a few more system info (I skipped all irrelevant info)
#lsusb
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 062a:0001 Creative Labs Notebook Optical Mouse
#iwconfig
wmaster0 IEEE 802.11g Frequency:2.457 GHz
RTS thr
ff Fragment thr=2346 B
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"TECOM-AH4021-9AF337"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457 GHz Access Point: 00:03:C9:92:20:B0
RTS thrff Fragment thr=2346 B
Link Quality=45/64 Signal level=19/65
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
The PC is a laptop Dell Inspiron 640m, running Kubuntu Feisty Fawn, which I'm very happy with.
Please someone help me solve this problem. Thanx in advance.
E.Mie
I tried with no success to get a weird Dell wireless miniPCI card working.
Specs : Dell wireless 1500 draft 802.11n (Broadcom chipset)
I tried ndsiwrapper and the very last windows driver from Dell's website.
The card seems unsupported.
So I went out and bought a Netgear WG111v2.
I plugged it in and, after entering the SSID and WEP key for my router it worked just fine
... for a few hours. Then, it just stopped working,
and I haven't been able to get the connection back up.I messed around a little, trying to figure the problem out by myself, uninstalled and reinstalled knetworkmanager . Now knetworkmanager won't even start with my session.
Anyhow, it shows two wireless devices : wmaster and wlan. Is that normal ?
I think there's also a problem with kwallet which is supposed to store the WEP key : it's not showing up anymore... And no wallet appears when I launch it (kdesu kwalletmanager). Is that related ?
I suppose I should setup the network from zero, but I don't know where to start. I'm not that familiar with Linux and Kubuntu is my first "Debian-based" distro.
Here's a few more system info (I skipped all irrelevant info)
#lsusb
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 062a:0001 Creative Labs Notebook Optical Mouse
#iwconfig
wmaster0 IEEE 802.11g Frequency:2.457 GHz
RTS thr
ff Fragment thr=2346 Bwlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"TECOM-AH4021-9AF337"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457 GHz Access Point: 00:03:C9:92:20:B0
RTS thr
ff Fragment thr=2346 BLink Quality=45/64 Signal level=19/65
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
The PC is a laptop Dell Inspiron 640m, running Kubuntu Feisty Fawn, which I'm very happy with.
Please someone help me solve this problem. Thanx in advance.
E.Mie
Correction for lsusb output (I didn't post info about the wifi device)
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