Hi I am having problems with getting my wireless card working, it's a
Belink, I been at it all day. So here want I have done . I'm using Ubuntu
6.06
I installed Dapper.
Installed ndiswrapper
Used the GUI to set it up
Came up as ra0, worked fine
Restarted computer , in networking configuration GUI it said the wireless
is active.
Did a iwconfig came up as wlan0. With ESSID ="Off /any". Doubled checked
with network configuration GUI , it says the ESSID is what it supposes to
be.
Did an ifdown and ifup of wlan0 , got" DHCIPDISCOVER on walan0 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11( repeats with different numbers) No
working leases in database sleeping".
I even add the essid manually in /etc/network/interfaces.
Ever thing works fine in windows
I know the wireless is working as my PDA can connect
Other information:
chip set RT61
Router D-Link Wireless ADSL, connect to a eircom netopia ADSL modem, vi an
Ethernet cable.
I hpoe some one can help me
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