[ILUG] Problems with getting my wireless card working, in Dapper Darke

[Andrew Court]

Hi,

The following tutorial is for breezy, but it should work with Dapper.
You dont need to use NDIS wrapper, you can use the driver from the
following website.

howto: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=132980
driver: http://www.ralinktech.com/drivers/Linux/2005_1230_RT61_Linux_STA_Drv1.0.3.0.tar.gz

Let us know how you get on.

-A-

On 8/29/06, Alan Mac Hugh <mach1982 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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