Wireless: Linksys WMP54GS

[Guest]

I recently decided to give Linux a try over windows, and installed Kubuntu. I have a Linksys WMP54GS PCI card, but I can't connect to my house's wireless internet. (I currently have the computer moved so I can plug directly into the router, but this is not a good permanent solution)

I have tried a couple methods I've read on various forums, currently I'm using the 'ndiswrapper' approach. I have both the WMP54GS and WMP54GSa drivers installed under 'windows wireless drivers', and they both say "hardware present: yes".

The router is WEP enabled. When I try to enter the essid and key KNetworkManager freezes at 28%, I've also tried KWifiManager, and Wireless Assistant, but have had no success with those either.

My ifconfig is as follows:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:c6:85:1b:80
inet addr:192.168.0.107 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21f:c6ff:fe85:1b80/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:12416 errors:0 dropped:164423136338 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10440 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:11186116 (10.6 MB) TX bytes:1341879 (1.2 MB)
Interrupt:254 Base address:0x6000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:17:64:e7:35
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-12-17-64-E7-35-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

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and my iwconfig:

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption keyff
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

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If you have any insight into how to get my wireless working, I'd appreciate it greatly,
and if there is any more information I can provide, please let me know

[Kannedheat]

Re: Wireless: Linksys WMP54GS

I'm having the same problem. Did you ever you wireless to connect?

[Guest]

Re: Wireless: Linksys WMP54GS

I did finally get it working, this was the page that did it:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=201902

Hope this helps you