Thread: [Ndiswrapper-general] Linksys Wireless-G (WPC54G) doesn't find access point
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From: Your N. <li...@re...> - 2004-07-28 11:56:26
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I have a Linksys Wireless-G Notebook Adapter in my laptop and a Linksys Wireless-G PCI Adapter in my desktop computer. My problem is that I can not connect them to anything, I have tried to connect them with ad-hoc mode and to find an Access Point in managed mode. I use kernel 2.6.6 in the desktop and 2.6.8-rc2 in the laptop, but I have tried with many different kernels with no luck. The problem seems to be the same on both computers, so I only describe what happens on the desktop. Here's what lspci says: # lspci -v 00:07.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 4320 (rev 03) Subsystem: Linksys: Unknown device 0013 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 Memory at e9010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] # lspci -vn 00:07.0 Class 0280: 14e4:4320 (rev 03) Subsystem: 1737:0013 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 Memory at e9010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] I have installed ndiswrapper 0.9-pre1, but I have tried many different versions, mostly with the same result. I use the driver that came with the card. I have tried other drivers, but this seems to work best. # ndiswrapper -l Installed ndis drivers: bcmwl5 hardware present # modprobe ndiswrapper # dmesg ndiswrapper version 0.9-pre1 loaded ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5.sys added PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:07.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:0b.0 ndiswrapper: using irq 11 wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:0c:41:64:a8:02 using driver bcmwl5.sys wlan0 supports WPA with CCMP/AES and TKIP ciphers # iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00 Bit Rate:54Mb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-10 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Everything seems good to me, but... # iwlist wlan0 scanning wlan0 No scan results Even when I know there are several access points nearby. I don't have any experience configuring wireless cards, so it might me some small matter I have overlooked. But I have searched google and the forums for a couple of months now, and I'm still at a loss, even though everyone else seem to have little trouble with this chipset. So, please tell me, if you have any ideas of what I'm doing wrong. Right now, I don't have an Access Point, so I've been trying to connect the two cards in ad-hoc mode. So what I've done is this: # iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc essid "test" channel 6 on both computers. # ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.1 on the first computer and # ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.2 on the other computer then # ping 192.168.1.1 from the second computer does not connect. I really don't know exactly what I'm doing here, so please tell me if I have missed anything. I haven't found a good description of how to do this in howtos or forums. Thanks. Robert. |