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Nikobelia
2008-07-09, 11:41 AM CDT
Hello,

I'm running Fedora 9, and I've recently installed ndiswrapper and drivers for a card with the Marvell chipset (it's a Netgear PC Card). The drivers seem to be recognised and in place, but I'm having trouble configuring the card to connect to my router. I have two other wireless devices (one nonfunctional, one that's been borrowed temporarily) installed, so I changed the "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper" setting to wlan2. I'm not sure whether this is what's causing complications

Here's the output of dmesg:

[Niko@localhost ~]$ dmesg | grep ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper version 1.52 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
ndiswrapper: driver mrv8335 (Marvell,02/22/2005,3.1.1.7) loaded
ndiswrapper: using IRQ 16
usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper: changing interface name from 'wlan1' to 'wlan2'

Configuring the card through the Network utility doesn't affect what iw- or ifconfig saw: I]ESSID:off/any[/I] and Access Point: Not-Associated. I changed that with iwconfig, and the output's:

wlan2 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"baileycharm" Nickname:"localhost"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:30:F1:FF:97:76
Bit Rate=36 Mb/s Sensitivity=-200 dBm
RTS thr=2346 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key: [HEX KEY] Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality:39/100 Signal level:-71 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

But when I try to set it as active through system-config-network, it comes back with: "Determining IP information for wlan2... failed; no link present. Check cable?"

Pinging 192.168.2.1 comes back with "connect: Network is unreachable"

If anyone's got any suggestions, they'd be much appreciated. Either way, thanks for taking the time to look at this.

Nikki.

hyperspace
2008-07-09, 12:08 PM CDT
What kernel are you using?

Nikobelia
2008-07-09, 12:24 PM CDT
Uh, sorry. uname -a is:

Linux localhost 2.6.25.9-76.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Fri Jun 27 16:14:35 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

hyperspace
2008-07-09, 02:12 PM CDT
Uh, sorry. uname -a is:

Linux localhost 2.6.25.9-76.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Fri Jun 27 16:14:35 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/LinuxDid networking work OK before updating to this new kernel?

Nikobelia
2008-07-09, 02:31 PM CDT
Yup, but it still works fine on that kernel with my other card - this card I've only just got, and haven't tried on any other kernel or OS. My other card worked pretty much out of the box.

Edit: I've got it working now :)