Fw: WIFI problem

[Stratos Laspas]

On Sun 16 Jul 2006 15:55, jr22 at bellsouth.net wrote:
> Thanks for the information.  I can't do an update as the site suggest since
> I can't get on internet.
> In my situation, when WIFI scans, it see's no routers.
> On my Breezy system, it see every ones router in my
> neighborhood.  Then I connect to my router.  If I could
> just see my router, then I may be able to manually
> connect to it.
>
> JR  ...

I don't see the other networks in gnome network manager, either. But at least 
the wireless finally works. 

Using a NetGear WG511 (does not mention version on the card, it's made in 
China). In general terms, I did the following and it seems to work 
automagically now:

1) put the module prism54 in black list so it is not loaded
2) go to ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net, download card driver, set up ndiswrapper 
(create conf files)
3) put ndiswrapper in list of modules to be loaded
4) set up a /etc/wpasupplicant.conf (like the others mentioned in this thread)
5) in /etc/network/interfaces, I have wlan0 as follows:
*quote*
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
pre-up /sbin/wpa_supplicant -Dndiswrapper -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -Bw
post-down killall -q wpa_supplicant
*unquote*

This may be overkill, I just gathered info from many places and tried all 
combos until something worked. If you have any suggestions for something 
simpler, I'm all ears!

Stratos



> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Howard Coles Jr." <dhcolesj at gmail.com>
> To: <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 4:38 AM
> Subject: Re: WIFI problem
>
> > On Saturday 15 July 2006 6:45 pm, Brad Palmer wrote:
> >> I found this site helpful in getting the WPA wireless working on my Asus
> >> Laptop.
> >>
> >> http://en.magenson.de/2006/06/11/ubuntu-dapper-drake-and-wpa-encrypted-w
> >>ire less/
> >>
> >> Hope this helps
> >>
> >> jr22 at bellsouth.net wrote:
> >> > Its a NIC ...
> >> >
> >> > JR ...
> >> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Coles Jr."
> >
> > The Problem with the network manager was that I could never get it to
> > save the
> > Wireless passcode so that I didn't have to keep manually entering it.
> >
> > However, it may work properly now.
> >
> >
> > --
> > See Ya'
> > Howard Coles Jr.
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> >
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