Wireless Networking Issues

xkalibur1554 · Apprentice Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 206 Location: USA

I have a Sony Vaio Laptop with a built in Prism 2.5 Wavelan (rev 01) wireless card. I am trying to get it to work, and it will not. I have emerged wireless-tools, and the hostap drivers. however when i type iwconfig or ifconfig, i get lo and eth0. it says there are no wireless extensions, and isnt even seeing the card. is there any way for me to fix this? if you could help me, i would appreciate it. thank you.[/i]

zepto · Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 11:46 am Post subject:

Do you have Wireless extension enabled in your kernel. On a 2.6.9 kernel you can find it here:

xkalibur1554 · Apprentice Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 206 Location: USA

yes i ave them enabled. i had this card working when i had the 2.4 kernel, but now it will not work with anything, how do i get hostap to work? or how do i configure it? i still get no wireless extensions. thank you in advance.

jakubc · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:46 am Post subject:

do you have the drivers loaded? probably do, but it never hurts to ask:-))
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xkalibur1554 · Apprentice Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 206 Location: USA

ive tried to load all types of drivers. i modprobe every module, but cannot get it to work. when you say load drivers, is that modprobe does?

jakubc · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:58 pm Post subject:

Ok, ndiswrapper http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ claims it knows how to translate this chipset. Check the link, under "list" is a list of supported chipsets. Try this...

You were trying multiple drivers? Which drivers were you using (I presume you searched for the appropriate drivers for the chipset...)?

good luck with ndiswrapper!
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xkalibur1554 · Apprentice Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 206 Location: USA

i have installed ndiswrapper, but cannot find the right windows driver. for my computer it is a .exe file, so no .inf or .sys, it is a Intersil Prism 2.5 Wavelan built in card. can you help anymore? thank you.

zonk · Apprentice Joined: 23 May 2005 Posts: 176

actually, hostAP is the right choice for a prism 2.5

what exactly have you done so far to get the card running? that might help identify steps you may have missed.

xkalibur1554 · Apprentice Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 206 Location: USA

i opened the make menuconfig or whatever and enabled the radio and wireless in the kernel. then i the make && make modules or something like that. i then emerged hostap-drivers, hostapd, and hostap-utils. then it comes up no wireless extensions when i iwconfig, and I constantly get a hostapd cannot find service net.wlan0...

i do not know how to fix this at all. all i know is with a 2.4 kernel linux-wlan-ng worked, but nothing does now. if you can help i would greatly appreciate it. thank you.

xkalibur1554 · Apprentice Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 206 Location: USA

ok i have gotten hostap drivers to work, the problem is that it is using b. my card is a g and so is the network.

zonk · Apprentice Joined: 23 May 2005 Posts: 176

what are the results of

xkalibur1554 · Apprentice Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 206 Location: USA

for rate i got

4 availiable

1
2
5.5
11

for scan, it says none because i have version 17 instead of 18 extensions

i know it is a g card, but it only comes up b

do you know how to fix this?

thank you

zonk · Apprentice Joined: 23 May 2005 Posts: 176

xkalibur1554 · Apprentice Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 206 Location: USA

do you know what the module is for linux-wlan-ng? or how to completely remove hostap?

zonk · Apprentice Joined: 23 May 2005 Posts: 176

no, i don't. however, there are plenty of HOWTOs to be found both on this board and google.