MicahCarrick
2005-12-16, 02:46 PM CST
I have a Linksys WPC54G - Wireless-G Notebook Adapter V3.0 which I had working with ndiswrapper previously using the RPMs 'ndiswrapper', 'kernel-module-ndiswrapper' and 'kernel' with kernel version 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4. I used YUM to install them, and even updated the kernel (and the other 2 rpms) at one point and everything still worked.
Yesterday, I mistakenly updated the kernel without the updated kernel-module, and then the card wouldn't work in the new kernel nor when I booted in to the old kernel. The kernel module was not loaded and thus the device was not found. So, I removed the new kernel, and instead updated all the rpms to the most recent which is 2.6.14-1.1644_FC4. Now I have it installed, i know the driver worked in the past. The problem is the card does not pick up a signal at all, as if there is not connection. I work for cafe's and do not use the same router each time I connect. But I've tried on 3 different networks which used to work fine for me.
Here are my error messages:
dmesg
...
ndiswrapper: using irq 10
wlan0: vendor: ''
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:14:bf:41:13:79 using driver lsbcmnds, 14E4:4318:1737:0048.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
...
ndiswrapper (iw_set_bitrate:520): setting bit rate failed (C00000BB)
ndiswrapper (iw_set_bitrate:520): setting bit rate failed (C00000BB)
...
When trying to connect, I get the error:
Determining IP information for wlan0... failed; no link present. Check cable?
And here's my information:
/usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -l
lsbcmnds driver present, hardware present
/sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"www.personaltelco.net" Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:0F:66:E4:32:72
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity:1/3
Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=50/92 Signal level=-51 dBm Noise level=-101 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:59
Tx excessive retries:13 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
sit0 no wireless extensions.
(By the way, eth1 is my old 802.11b internal card which I'm using now, but it's crap so I need to get this 'g' card working again which is wlan0).
cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0
# Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
# for the documentation of these parameters.
IPV6INIT=no
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=yes
GATEWAY=
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=wlan0
HWADDR=00:14:bf:41:13:79
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
ESSID=Auto
CHANNEL=1
MODE=Managed
RATE='54 Mb/s'
Also, noting the above, the '54 Mb/s' used to give me an error when connecting about 'Mb/s' not being a valid wireless request, but the card would still work.
Any help'd be much appreciated.
Yesterday, I mistakenly updated the kernel without the updated kernel-module, and then the card wouldn't work in the new kernel nor when I booted in to the old kernel. The kernel module was not loaded and thus the device was not found. So, I removed the new kernel, and instead updated all the rpms to the most recent which is 2.6.14-1.1644_FC4. Now I have it installed, i know the driver worked in the past. The problem is the card does not pick up a signal at all, as if there is not connection. I work for cafe's and do not use the same router each time I connect. But I've tried on 3 different networks which used to work fine for me.
Here are my error messages:
dmesg
...
ndiswrapper: using irq 10
wlan0: vendor: ''
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:14:bf:41:13:79 using driver lsbcmnds, 14E4:4318:1737:0048.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
...
ndiswrapper (iw_set_bitrate:520): setting bit rate failed (C00000BB)
ndiswrapper (iw_set_bitrate:520): setting bit rate failed (C00000BB)
...
When trying to connect, I get the error:
Determining IP information for wlan0... failed; no link present. Check cable?
And here's my information:
/usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -l
lsbcmnds driver present, hardware present
/sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"www.personaltelco.net" Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:0F:66:E4:32:72
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity:1/3
Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=50/92 Signal level=-51 dBm Noise level=-101 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:59
Tx excessive retries:13 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
sit0 no wireless extensions.
(By the way, eth1 is my old 802.11b internal card which I'm using now, but it's crap so I need to get this 'g' card working again which is wlan0).
cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0
# Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
# for the documentation of these parameters.
IPV6INIT=no
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=yes
GATEWAY=
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=wlan0
HWADDR=00:14:bf:41:13:79
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
ESSID=Auto
CHANNEL=1
MODE=Managed
RATE='54 Mb/s'
Also, noting the above, the '54 Mb/s' used to give me an error when connecting about 'Mb/s' not being a valid wireless request, but the card would still work.
Any help'd be much appreciated.