Wireless Networking Still A Nightmare With Linux

Another one for the "Works For Me" COLA gang

Damm, all he has to do is plug the card in and insert the DVD and under Windows it will just work.

Linux?

Well you can read below.

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I have spent days on this problem now I have reinstalled Suse 10.1 from scratch so many times now just to make sure I have a clean sheet so to speak but still cant get the damm wirless card to work or internet access . hear is what I have done so far word for word .

Loaded 10.1 from scratch basically installed the ndiswrapper from DVD Copied driver from Belkin Cd to desktop of root . Opened a terminal Typed in Ndiswrapper and path to driver . Typed in Ndiswrapper Ðl answer driver installed hardware present Typed ndiswrapper -m adding Òalias to Wlan0 ndiswraperÓ to etc-modprobe.d-ndiswrapper

Typed Iwlist wlan0 scan

Cell01 Ð address:00:11:50:FD:B8:68 plus 1 ESSID :Ó paulsBelkinÓ Protocol :IEEE 802.11b Mode: managed Frequancy :2.437ghz (Channel 6 ) Quality : 0-100 Signal level :-27 dbm noise level :256 dbm Encryption key: on bit rates:1 mb-s; 2 Mb-s; 5.5 mb-s; 11 mb-s Extra:bcnint=100 Extra :atim=0

This tells me that at least the wireless card is reaching the Access point because it has detected my ESSID ÒpaulsBelkinÓ Therefore this must mean that the driver and ndiswrapper is working

Now to YAST

In Yast I disconnected the Eth0 card Then added wireless card added ndiswrapper in module selected use dhcp

Selected "paulsBelkin" as ESSId name

Used hex and added wep key making sure that key length is the same as router on this occasion both are 64 Made sure that firewall was set to external and then finished Rebooted just to make sure

Still no Internet , Added ifconfig wlan0 192.168.2.5 Route add default gw 192.168.2.1

Still no internet . What now ? this is getting so frustrating

I think it might be a routing problem but don't know where to go from here . please any help really appriciated now big time . thanks

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