wireless problem (solved!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

[tim.thelion]

I am 15 years old and have been using windows/dos since I was 2.  now I am giving Linux a try and had kubuntu suggested by a fellow geek.  unfortunately my adventure in Linux has been brought to a halt because my wifi card won't work.
ok so I followed a tutorial to get ndiswrapper to work with my awlh3025 wifi card....  http://diabolikal.org/e107_plugins/c...p?content.75  using the driver from here http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...table=yes#A.  everything went well until I got to network settings.  then I could not get the thing to go into administrator mode...  so I did some googling around and found that I could get there by typing kdesu kcontrol.  so I finally got to network settings.  set up the network.  pressed enable and it did pretty much the same thing as with the admin mode bug...  it said it was enabling then it went back to the disabled state it was in before. 

anyone know of a work around?   

[sky]

Re: wireless problem

Hi,

in fact, I'm not really keen of GUI, I always prefer old good command line
Can you go to konsole and type :
sudo ifdown <your_network_interface>
sudo ifup <your_network_interface>
and check what messages are given by the last command please ?
Maybe also give the output of :
cat /etc/network/interfaces

[tim.thelion]

Re: wireless problem

is this good? I copied into open office and moved it to windows via my digital camera

Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:
ifdown: Use --help for help
timothy@ubuntu:~$ sudo ifdown wlan0 > nano
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.wlan0.pid with pid 7319
killed old client process, removed PID file
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.2
Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit [url]http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP[/url]

Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:12:0e:02:77:15
Sending on  LPF/wlan0/00:12:0e:02:77:15
Sending on  Socket/fallback
timothy@ubuntu:~$ sudo ifdown wlan0
ifdown: interface wlan0 not configured
timothy@ubuntu:~$ sudo ifdown wlan0 > nano
ifdown: interface wlan0 not configured
timothy@ubuntu:~$ nano nano
timothy@ubuntu:~$ sudo ifup wlan0
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.wlan0.pid with pid 0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.2
Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit [url]http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP[/url]

Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:12:0e:02:77:15
Sending on  LPF/wlan0/00:12:0e:02:77:15
Sending on  Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
timothy@ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
address 127.0.0.1
netmask 255.0.0.0

# This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
# They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.
mapping hotplug
    script grep
    map wlan0

iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid HOBBSNET

[sky]

Re: wireless problem

Your network config seems to be ok, it's just that you're not receiving signal (dhcp address). Can you give the ouput of iwconfig also please ?
Are you using this wifi connection on this machine with another OS ? Is it working ? Is it dhcp or fixed ip ?

Maybe it's password protected : WEP or WPA, and it's not configured on your computer...

[Patrick]

Re: wireless problem

I am 15 years old and have been using windows/dos since I was 2.

Similiar story to mine, just that I'm 14 and a developer .

Do you use DCHP, or have a fixed ip and whatsnot?

[tim.thelion]

Re: wireless problem

Similiar story to mine, just that I'm 14 and a developer .

I will be joining you shortly...

here is a movie of vhat is goin on... http://mysite.verizon.net/res8szeo/MOV01967.MPG

[Patrick]

Re: wireless problem

I know what the problem is, I've had it myself. We just need to know how your network is set up first.

[tim.thelion]

Re: wireless problem

timothy@ubuntu:~$ iwconfig
lo    no wireless extensions.

wlan0   IEEE 802.11b+/g+ ESSID:"HOBBSNET" Nickname:"acx100 v0.2.0pre8"
     Mode:Auto Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
     Bit Rate=54 Mb/s  Tx-Power=15 dBm  Sensitivity=1/3
     Retry min limit:7  RTS thr:off
     Power Management:off
     Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
     Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
     Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0  Missed beacon:0

i am behind a wrk 54g and it works in windows...

It is broadcasting ssid and dhcp and I use mac address verification for security...

hey Patrick, when did you first start coding?

[warbuckle]

Re: wireless problem (not at all solved)

Hello,

I believe by the Access Point being all 0's you are not seeing it, I had the same issue with my Acer laptop with an onboard Atheros chipset. Either that or try from a terminal as root dhclient, you may have to try it twice. I configured my WiFi from the command line and then opened Kwifimanager and adjusted the settings "configuration", and it worked.


Will

[tim.thelion]

Re: wireless problem (not at all solved)

none of that worked. Sorry. grr.

[Gnou]

Re: wireless problem (not at all solved)

Hi,

The following is incorrect:

Nickname:"acx100 v0.2.0pre8"

It should be the name you gave at your computer I imagine that you didn't name it "acx100 v0.2.0pre8".

Alternatively you can use the acx100 drivers (which are free).
Your card should work with it as it is listed here :
http://acx100.sourceforge.net/matrix.html
The howto install and set-up acx111 is here http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/ACX
However it seems that acx_100 is already installed in ubuntu.

The worth in linux is wifi. Good luck.

[Gnou]

Re: wireless problem (not at all solved)

In /etc/network/interfaces
you should add

auto wlan0
# If you want to use static ip address change the following to addapt to your need
iface wlan0 inet static
    address 192.168.1.7
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    network 192.168.1.0
    broadcast 192.168.1.255
    gateway 192.168.1.1

# If you want to use dynamic ip address, forget the static part and uncomment the next line.
#iface wlan0 inet dhcp 

wireless_mode managed
#wireless_channel 1    # optional
wireless_essid linksys   # change to your essid
wireless_key1 12345asdf  #this is your wep key if it's needed, (optional)
wireless_ap 00:0F:66:12:0D:C9 # your accesspoint MAC (optional)

See http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/D...on_list/Debian

[tim.thelion]

Re: wireless problem (not at all solved)

timothy@timothyscomp:~$ sudo apt-get install acx100-source wireless-tools
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package acx100-source

[askrieger]

Re: wireless problem (not at all solved)

The existence of a Debian Unstable package does not neccesarily imply the existence of a Kubuntu package. The set of Debian Unstable packages is substantially larger than the set of (K)Ubuntu packages.

Fortunately, you don't need one. Ostensibly, the ACX100 "works out of the box with Breezy". See (look for my highlighting) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupp...t=%28ACX100%29
But it doesn't say WHICH box!

[tim.thelion]

Re: wireless problem (not at all solved)

but I have a acx111 card the AWLH3025... and that isn't in the list