Help with Wireless lan

[toddflying]

Hi everyone im new to linux and I am trying to get the wireless internet working on my acer5002 wlmi any tips on where i even begin? if someone could mail me a walkthrough that would be awesome my email is toddflying@aol.com or post it on here. Thanks in advance

[VictorienSardou]

have you used the hardware switch to turn on the wireless?
does it have a broadcom 4318 adapter?
[do /sbin/lspci in a terminal and look in the output]
if not, what adapter does it have.
is it a 64 bit computer?

[MAnix]

ok, try reading this guide first. It is very detailed and has links to a lot of pages. this whole website is all about Fedora, so you can get a lot from this...

www.manix-place.co.uk/wireless.html

[SoulHunt]

Hey all,

have checked the website out that manix just put them here.
Well I still can't use my wireless usb network adapter.
les
I have installed Fedora Core 5 and have a philips SNU6500 wireless network adapter.
How can I get it to work on my FC5 box? Are there any drivers for? Found the SNN6500 one but that is just for the laptops/notebooks.

Can someone help me further with it?

Cheers,
SoulHunt

[MAnix]

what exactly was the error when you tried the instructions?? what didnt work?? can you post any outputs you got, or errors. then we can see what went wrong...

[SoulHunt]

it has been failed to find eth0.. and I can't get the wireless network to run. It won't find it. Or must I make a new network configuration?

[MAnix]

first error i see is you are trying to configure eth0 which is your ethernet controller, for DHCP. wireless, following my instructions, would create wlan0. to do this you need ndiswrapper. then after it is installed, you use ndiswrapper to add the windows drivers using the -i option so:

ndiswrapper -i [driver].inf

for me mine reads,
ndiswrapper -i wusb11v4.inf as an example.

You get the drivers from the net, and you find these by checking for them on the Hardware Compatability List (HCL)

you say it wont find it, how far did you get in you commands?? is it that it doesnt see you network. Did every step i outlined go without fault?? if there was an error, what was it??

and as for network configuration, that is what the instructions tell you to do, but follow them exactly, and post ALL errors, or problems and try and be more specific, as all i know is it doesnt work??

i shall post instructions for you to follow here again...

[MAnix]

You need to see if your Network Interface Device (NIC) is supported by NDISWrapper, before you begin. This is done by looking here: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List. Just look through the list, which is in alphabetic order and search for your Wireless NIC. If you have a problem at this stage, http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Installation

Now, download the driver that is mentioned for you NIC. You will need to extract it using "cabextract" for EXE, Self Installing Executables, or "unshield" for .cab files (cabinet files). More information can be read here. You basically should be looking for the .inf file mentioned that works for your card.

You now need to download and install NDISWrapper. Information and Downloads are obtained from http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/. You now need to un-tar the file, and set-up NDISWrapper. Here's how:
make;make install

Next you need to install the driver to NDISWrapper. This is done by:

ndiswrapper -i [location of .inf file].inf

You can check your installation at anytime, to see if the driver was sucessful, by typing:

ndiswrapper -l

Now you need to get the internet up and running!! If you have made it this far, then this is great. Troubleshooting is at the bottom for those who are having difficulties. Simply type these commands in to the Bash prompt:

As root type these followed by RETURN key:

depmod -a

modprobe ndiswrapper

iwconfig

iwlist wlan0 scan

/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 essid ESSID (By the way the essid in upper case should be replaced by the network id like "linksys_54g" or whatever. this can be seen when you type in scan, and the essid is listed next to the access point of choice)

iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed

then finally:

ifconfig wlan0 up

or
dhclient wlan0 (i do this one, but depends on which you have on system)

or

dhcpcd wlan0

Now test your connection to the internet. You may find you wish to review the Installation instructions if you have a problem at this stage, http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Installation

[MAnix]

Hey all,

have checked the website out that manix just put them here.
Well I still can't use my wireless usb network adapter.
les
I have installed Fedora Core 5 and have a philips SNU6500 wireless network adapter.
How can I get it to work on my FC5 box? Are there any drivers for? Found the SNN6500 one but that is just for the laptops/notebooks.

Can someone help me further with it?

Cheers,
SoulHunt

As for the driver, i assume you have a driver CD, or can get your Windows drivers for the SNU6500?? If so then use these, as they could work, but if not, try the laptops ones. Sometimes the list has NIC's drivers that will work for a number of cards. I found the drivers for your card here:
http://www.soft32.com/download_185372.html

so download the above and use the .inf file from there. just download it, extract all of the files contents to a directory, say /tmp/drivers/ and then in that file should be a .inf file, which you add to ndiswrapper...

and if you prefer to install ndiswrapper by using yum, or if it doenst seem to like compiling on your system, then look at this guide:
http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/ndis-yum-livna

If you still have problems you need to give me as much info as possible to help you. I can only help if i know what exactly isnt working, and at what stage you were at, so i can see if i know the answer.

MAniX

[SoulHunt]

Alright, now have to find the ndiswrapper. so I can add it to it :)

[MAnix]

For those who will search this post in forums, I have updated my wireless guide and it now contains the instrucation for a yum install of ndiswrapper, configuring ndiswrapper to work on boot, WEP, and WPA, and TKIP encryption support for ndiswrapper, and much more.

http://www.manix-place.co.uk/wireless.html