linksys wireless-g (wpc54g) on Slack 10.2...how?


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    linksys wireless-g (wpc54g) on Slack 10.2...how?

    I've decided to enter the 21st Century and go wireless.
    I have a Linksys wireless-g broadband router up and working on my XP desktop box (sorry...unavoidable for work) and I have bought a linksys wpc54G notebook adapter for my laptop running Slackware 10.2, but I honestly have no idea where to go from here to get my laptop configured and online. The LED's on the card are lit which I guess is a plus, but what next.
    Even a pointer to a website would be appreciated...Thanks.

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    well check and see if it's recognized with

    lspci

    and

    dmesg | grep eth

    other than that, you setup your init scripts to start ethX with DHCP...I don't remember much slackware stuff, but I think that script is /etc/rc.d/network
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    ndiswrapper if all else fails. I've used ndiswrapper with that model for years, and never had any trouble with it.

    http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

    I've used this with lots of wireless network cards that don't have Linux drivers.

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    I decided to go back to debian which I am somewhat more familiar with than slackware. So I decided to give kubuntu a try since there has been a lot of raving about it here.
    I install and of course my wireless card was not configured.
    I managed to find a compatible drive with ndiswrapper and after a false start or six I got the driver installed.

    iwconfig gives me:

    Code:
    wlan0  IEEE 802.11g   ESSID:off/any
    Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 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
    Power Management:off
    Link Quality:100/100   Signal level:-10 dBm   Noise Level:-256 dBm
    Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
    Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0  Missed beacon:0
    ifconfig contains not eth0 or wlan0 entries...only loopback

    /etc/networking/interfaces contains entry for only the loopback device.

    Where to I go from here?

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    You add the entries that you need...

    check out section 10.6.1.2 here:
    http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/re...ateway.en.html
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    I tried that and tried configuring with a static address. 192.168.1.110

    When I use the Wireless Lan Manager that comes with Kubuntu, and hit scanning for networks it complains no networks were found.
    Could this be a problem with router configuration?
    This is my first experience with a router and with manually configuring a networks so please bear with my stupidity.

    dhcp3-client is installed btw.

    thanks

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    ok I managed to get wlan0 configured and active (or so the Network software tells me) but I still can't reach a network. I also can't seem to change ESSID from off/any to linksys, the SSID of the router. Adding it to interfaces or using sudo iwconfig seems to have no effect.
    I also tried setting up a static address rather than dhcp but still get a network unreachable 100% packet loss when trying to ping the router

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