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What settings for KDE wireless assistant?

  • 24-07-2007 6:42am
    #1
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,508 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I got my laptop connected to my router yesterday using a liveCD of Ubuntu and running the wireless network manager on there. DHCP wouldn't work for some reason so I forced an IP and the assistant filled in the necessary addresses.

    Now, back in Kubuntu, I'm trying to do the same thing with KDE network assistant. My NetGear USB WiFi key was recognised off the bat and the local wireless networks found straight away, but I can't connect. DHCP won't connect so I'm trying to force a manual IP.

    My router is 192.168.1.1 and my desktop is 192.168.1.100 (attributed by the router but via ethernet).

    I've tried the following, amongst other configs:

    IP address: 192.168.1.101
    Broadcast: 192.168.1.255
    Netmask: 255.255.255.0
    Gateway: 192.168.1.1.
    Domain:
    Primary DNS:
    Secondary DNS:

    No real idea what if anything, to put in the last three boxes.
    __________________


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  • #2
    ethernet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭ethernet


    • IP address: 192.168.1.2 -- if DHCP is assigning from 192.168.1.100, you can avoid a potential conflict by assigning an IP address out of this range, such as 192.168.1.2
    • Broadcast: 192.168.1.255
    • Netmask: 255.255.255.0
    • Gateway: 192.168.1.1
    • Domain: NA
    • Primary DNS: 192.168.0.1 [router's address] OR 208.67.222.222
    • Secondary DNS: If you don't enter your router's IP address above, then enter 208.67.220.220 here. These DNS servers are hosted by OpenDNS and not your ISP.


  • #3
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,508 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    I think the USB receiver might be dodgy. Today whenever Iplug it in it's not recognised and I get this from dmesg:
    [597198.252128] usb 2-4: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 6
[597198.431817] usb 2-4: device descriptor read/64, error -62
[597198.715319] usb 2-4: device descriptor read/64, error -62
[597198.994825] usb 2-4: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 7
[597199.174516] usb 2-4: device descriptor read/64, error -62
[597199.458031] usb 2-4: device descriptor read/64, error -62
[597199.737531] usb 2-4: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 8
[597200.144809] usb 2-4: device not accepting address 8, error -62
[597200.320513] usb 2-4: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 9
[597200.727792] usb 2-4: device not accepting address 9, error -62

    Tried on two PCs with the same error


  • #4
    ethernet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭ethernet


    Some wireless adapters don't work on Linux. What model do you have? There may be drivers available for it. If not, you might need to use ndiswrapper.


  • #5
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,508 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    It's back working again now.. I think it just overheated earlier, it was burning hot. Anyhow, no luck connecting to the router still :(


  • #6
    ZENER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭ZENER


    Stupid Question Alert !!!!

    Will the wifi adaptor be given any network info before it has successfully associated with the access point ? Have you tried disabling WEP or WPA for the crack to see if it gets an i.p. then ?

    Que guffawws from more knowledgeable *nix heads . . . .

    From my limited experience with Mandrake and BackTrack 2 just because the hardware is recognised doesn't mean Linux has a driver for it.

    Try 'iwconfig' in a shell (NOT ifconfig) and see if it reports a driver for your interface. On my system I get :

    lo no wireless extension

    eth0 no wireless extension

    ra0 RT2500 Wireless ESSID: "blah blah blah"
    Several lines more describing encryption status etc.

    ra0 is a Ralink PCI wireless card (Belkin branded) I have installed, if yours is a Netgear USB with an Atheros chipset then you should see something like athusb0 or for a Ralink USB device it might be rausb0.

    Good luck

    ZEN


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