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Martin wrote:
Do you get any flashing yellow lights *at all* ?
No
Have you installed wireless-tools ?
No; would that help?
What happens when you run 'ifup wlan0' ?
It says 'wlan0 is already configured'. I tried 'ifdown wlan0; ifup wlan0' and this generated a lot of information, which I have appended at the bottom. Does this help to see what the problem is? I'm afraid I don't understand what it is doing at all. 'No such device'??
cheating to use a non-free Windows driver.Sorry, but for me, that's totally pig-headed dogmatic-stance garbage.
A wee misunderstanding here I think; of course I own the Windows driver and I use it in Windows on another partition. I was reflecting what I understand the Debian philosophy to be, viz that free software, if available, is preferable to non-free. The ubuntu docs were quite disapproving about ndiswrapper.
I couldn't get ndiswrapper to work"to work" in what way? Did you copy the Windows driver over to your hard drive? Does apt-get install ndiswrapper barf? Does ndiswrapper show up under lsmod?
I'm sorry I did not give more information but I was really more interested in getting linux-wlan-ng to work. I have installed that before and I am using it now so it seemed a safe bet.
Well, it sertainly supports Sean's BT card -- out the box.
That is how I would expect it to work. Now I know it should go I'll concentrate on that approach. ------------------------------------------ Sean wrote:
I didn't have to do any of this compilation stuff that Tony appears to be struggling with... I just had to edit /etc/network/interfaces as follows, and then restart...
auto eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp name Wireless LAN wireless_essid <your ESSID here> wireless_mode Managed Mine is the same except for wlan0 in place of eth1. Thanks to both for helpful advice Tony Sumner -------------------------------------------------------------------------- # ifdown wlan0 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1rc14 Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:00:00:00:00:00 Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:00:00:00:00:00 Sending on Socket/fallback # ifup wlan0 Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported. Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported. Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported. Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1rc14 Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:00:00:00:00:00 Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:00:00:00:00:00 Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 send_packet: Network is down receive_packet failed on wlan0: Network is down DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 send_packet: Network is down and more of the same ... -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html