[COLUG] Wireless woes

[Christopher Harting]

Picking up on the thread...
I have recent experience with trying to get a wireless adapter going on Ubuntu.
After purchasing a Nokia 770 Internet Tablet a few weeks ago, I got interested in running Kismet.  So I installed it in the 770, did some wardriving with it, then installed Kismet on my Ubuntu 6.06 box.  I determined that I could use an old D-Link DWL-120 USB wireless adapter with Ubuntu and Kismet.  Here's a snippet of the 'lsmod' command:
at76c503_i3861          5132  0
at76c503               88544  1 at76c503_i3861
at76_usbdfu             5764  1 at76c503

I can run Kismet all day, but I gave up on trying to configure the DWL-120 to attach to my wireless access point (802.11b/g, WPA-PSK).  Most of the wireless networking tools in Ubuntu (that are installed by default) don't even list WPA as an option.
I tried attaching the DWL-120 to my ThinkPad running RHEL4.  I can see the adapter with 'lsusb', but no drivers get loaded.

Chris Harting 

clharting at rocketmail.com

"To be stumbling along in the dark, happy in the knowledge that our guides can see, is not at all the same thing as walking in the light." -- F.J. Sheed, Theology for Beginners



----- Original Message ----
From: David McGlone <david.mcglone at att.net>
To: Central OH Linux User Group <colug432 at colug.net>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 11:34:59 PM
Subject: Re: [COLUG] Wireless woes

On Thursday 19 July 2007 11:29:15 pm Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> On 7/19/07, David McGlone <david.mcglone at att.net> wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > sorry I accidently sent the unfinished e-mail. laptop touchpad was under
> > my palm.
> >
> > I put a wireless nic in my desktop running kubuntu 7.04. I am using
> > ndiswrapper and the card shows at wlan0 but there is something wrong.
>
> Can I ask if you've tried an open source or at least Linux-native
> driver for your wireless hardware?
>
> Also, are you using NetworkManager to connect your WLAN or are you
> using the 'iwconfig' commands? Perhaps you should try the other if
> you've only tried one.

I gave up. I hear too many people say WEP doesn't work correctly with the 
card, so I just turned off WEP and used MAC address filtering and no 
broadcasting SSID.

This is only going to be temporary until I can get me a better wireless NIC 
for the desktop.


-- 
David M.
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