Re: Wireless device appears to be configured properly but I cannot ping my router!

jerry wrote:

Pete Holsberg wrote:
I installed the proper drivers using ndiswrapper and then used Network
Tools (Ubuntu 7.04) to set the device up.

It sees my WAP and the configuration via Network Tools appears to be
correct.

However, I cannot ping anything ("cannot reach") and iwconfig reports:

wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Sensitivity=-200 dBm
RTS thr=2346 B Fragment thr=2346 B
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

What have I missed?

Thanks.

It appears to me from your iwconfig that the wireless card did not
locate your ESSID and Access Point.

Did you verify that the ndiswrapper is setup properly?
sudo ndiswrapper -l

And:

# lsmod ndis

If it isn't there, you need to

# sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

"Now because Ubuntu Feisty is using an applet called Network Manager and
considering that it does not work with any Ralink based chipsets, you
might as well kick it to the curb. You can safely uninstall it without
any hassles.

That sounds like complete crap to me. I can't imagine any way that NM cares
what the specific modules are. In fact, my acx chipset using ndiswrapper
works fine under NM. As far as NM is concerned, it's just an interface.

After removing Network-Manager, you should use Synaptic again to install
a program called wifi-radar. Once this is installed, now you will want
to download this zip file
<http://www.computertroubleshoot.com/lg/wireless.zip>."

wifi-radar may well work _better_ but it's more useful to really know the
problem first, than to start uninstalling software based on really suspect
sources.

I do not know enough about the network tools to understand how to use
them to set up a wireless network.

Then why are you telling people to uninstall Network Manager?
--
derek


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