Wireless Setup - Linksys on Desktop

Tue Jun 13 06:18:05 UTC 2006

I've been trying for the past month to set up a desktop environment at work
for people to use internet, word stuff, and basic applications (and i'm
trying to give them a good first impression of linux).   Although i'm a
relative newbie, I had set up an ubuntu on my home system, so i figured no
problem.   I am currently running Breezy, I have most of the things set up,
except i've had two problems I can't resolve by googling.

1- I'm trying to get a wireless up and running (the boss doesn't want wires
everywhere), the ethernet works great, but the wireless isn't.   I've got
the driver, the hardware is being recognized, but I don't know what to do
from here.   The network settings doesn't even show a wireless option for me
to configure the network.   Below are the reading outs (following the second
problem):

2-the mouse responds reaaaaally slow.   Although the amount of movement is
as expected, there seems to always be this 1 second delay between when i
move the mouse and when I see it move.   It looks like it's out of memory,
or doesn't have enough RAM.   Considering it has 128 RAM, i don't think that
is the case.   Also when I'm on openoffice it types at a fine and proper
speed, so it can't simply be that.   A friend mentioned something about
possibly being a video card issue, but I have no idea how to check that.
Any help i can get would be appreciated.

I'm running a Linksys WPC54G (version 2 i believe), on a desktop with 128
RAM.   I dont' know where to go from here... so thanks for any help or
direction i can get.   Read outs follow.

root at ubuntu:~# sudo ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
windows invalid driver!
wusb54gv2       driver present, hardware present

root at ubuntu:~# sudo ndiswrapper -m
modprobe config already contains alias directive

root at ubuntu:~# sudo iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0     Interface doesn't support scanning.

root at ubuntu:~# sudo ifup wlan0
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
    SET failed on device wlan0 ; No such device.
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
    SET failed on device wlan0 ; No such device.
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
    SET failed on device wlan0 ; No such device.
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.wlan0.pid with pid 1
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.2
Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Bind socket to interface: No such device
Failed to bring up wlan0.

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root at ubuntu:~# ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:80:C6:F0:2B:F2
          inet addr:192.168.1.75  Bcast: 192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::280:c6ff:fef0:2bf2/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:11275 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:8445 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:9717274 (9.2 MiB)  TX bytes:1723396 (1.6 MiB)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x1000

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:148247 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:148247 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:10996210 (10.4 MiB)  TX bytes:10996210 (10.4 MiB)

sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
          NOARP  MTU:1480  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)

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# 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

# This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
# They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.
mapping hotplug
        script grep
        map eth0
        map wlan0

# The primary network interface
iface eth0 inet static
        address 192.168.1.75
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        network 192.168.1.0
        broadcast 192.168.1.255
        gateway 192.168.1.1
        # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if
installed
        dns-nameservers 192.168.1.1 24.153.22.195

#wireless connection where must put in the following form
#wireless_<function> <value>
#wireless_<function> <value>

# The primary wireless network interface
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
# wireless-* options are implemented by the wireless-tools package
wireless_keymode open
wireless_key 286a507b99
wireless_mode managed
#wireless_essid REPLACE WITH YOUR ESSID
#wireless_essid any
#wireless_nick REPLACE WITH YOUR HOST NAME
        address 192.168.1.75
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        network 192.168.1.0
        broadcast 192.168.1.255
        gateway 192.168.1.1
        # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if
installed
        dns-nameservers 192.168.1.1 24.153.22.195
#        #wireless_defaultkey <number>
#        wireless_defaultkey <286a507b99>

auto wlan0

#iface ath0 inet dhcp
#wireless-essid default

#wireless-key s:286a507b99
##where the numbers are the key to be used

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F. John
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