WiFi problem on my computer

ovihc · 2005-03-17 10:28:19

I just bought a wireless pci card for my desktop. it's a SITECOM wl-115. through NDISWRAPPER i manage to activate the card, dhcp into the router, and get access to the internet. however, after a while, the computer freezes and i need to hard reboot.

however, i noticed that if i would issue the dhcpcd command as

dhcpcd -t 900 wlan0

then the crash would not be as quick as if i had just simply typed

 dhcpcd wlan0

i looked into the log files, then i get outputs of

  timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response

this lead me to believe that it was a dhcp problem. so then i turned off dhcp in the router, and i did everything with static ips. to my surprise, it still continued.

this is my modprobe.conf file:

# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.2 ---
alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371
alias sound-slot-0 snd-ens1371
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---

alias /dev/nvidia*   nvidia

alias wlan0 ndiswrapper
install ndiswrapper /sbin/modprobe -i ndiswrapper && { loadndisdriver 1814:0201 /etc/ndiswrapper/rt2500/rt2500.sys /etc/ndiswrapper/rt2500/rt2500.inf; }

when i issue

modprobe ndiswrapper

the output is:

FATAL: Error running install command for ndiswrapper

however, like i mentioned before, the driver is loaded.

the output of:

ndiswrapper -l

is:

Installed ndis drivers:
rt2500  hardware present

the signal is strong, everything is correct, but i the system still crashes.

I'm trying the drivers from the vendor cd's, and i'm looking at the link from ndiswrapper for drivers.

however, would this be a driver problem or a misconfiguration between my wiFi card and the router? is it losing signal? this is my second day working on this project, but I can't get anywhere if my computer crashes after 10 minutes.

iphitus · 2005-03-17 10:36:45

please give us iwconfig's output when you have configured as much as you can

ovihc · 2005-03-17 13:59:00

[code]
lo no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"gr0ver"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:0C:F6:10:BC:73
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=-120 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-59 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:15 Invalid misc:16 Missed beacon:0
[code]

thanks for the help.

phrakture · 2005-03-17 14:08:05

a) to fix the error when loading ndiswrapper, just comment out the second ndiswrapper line (install ndiswrapper ...)

b) what version of ndiswraper are you using? make sure its the most up to date version

ovihc · 2005-03-17 14:52:37

version::
ndiswrapper 0.10-1

linux 2.6.3 (archlinux)

the computer had just crashed again because i'm using this wireless computer to post on the forum. it's somewhat funny, but damn...

this is a piece of the /var/log/kernel:

Mar 17 00:46:07 localhost kernel: ndiswrapper version 0.10 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=yes)
Mar 17 00:46:07 localhost kernel: This driver (rt2500.sys) is not for your hardware. It's likely to work anyway but have it in mind if you have problem.
Mar 17 00:46:07 localhost kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:0c.0 (0014 -> 0016)
Mar 17 00:46:07 localhost kernel: ndiswrapper: using irq 169
Mar 17 00:46:08 localhost kernel: wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:0c:f6:12:14:d5 using driver rt2500.sys
Mar 17 00:46:08 localhost kernel: ndiswrapper device wlan0 supports WPA with AES/CCMP and TKIP ciphers
Mar 17 00:46:08 localhost kernel: ndiswrapper: driver rt2500.sys (Ralink Technology, Inc.,04/23/2004, 2.02.04.0000) added
Mar 17 00:46:19 localhost kernel: wlan0: no IPv6 routers present

i have used the drivers from the vendor cd's. and also from the list from the ndiswrapper. i also found some supposed sources but they dont compile. i'm thinking that it should work with ndiswrapper. i have seen another forum where supposedly one guy has it working with SUSE, but it's old forum and the posts are incomplete.

i'm thinking that it's driver, maybe?

phrakture · 2005-03-17 16:05:02

ovihc wrote:

version::
ndiswrapper 0.10-1

current version is 1.1, so 0.10 is really outdated... I actually had intermittent hangs when using 1.0rc1 and had to upgrade to get it working...

try version 1.1
you can get the arch package in my repo (see sig)

ovihc · 2005-03-17 16:45:37

Hey thanks for opening my eyes.

through out this adventure, i was sure that i had seen 1.0 as the version in my system, and not .1

i'm going to do it now. thanks. hopefully it will solve it.

ovihc · 2005-03-21 23:33:00

that did it!! thanks for your help.

However:

i want to run giftd to use kazaa network.

this is my part of my rc.conf:

lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
#wlan0="wlan0 192.168.123.104 netmask 255.255.255.0"
#wlan0="wlan0 192.168.31.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.31.255"
#wlan0="dhcp"
wlan0="wlan0 192.168.123.107 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.123.255"
#eth0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(lo wlan0)

#
# Routes to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each route then list in ROUTES
#   (prefix a route in ROUTES with a ! to disable it)
#
#gateway="default gw 192.168.31.1"
#gateway="default gw 212.54.54.1"
gateway="default gw 192.168.123.254"
ROUTES=(gateway)

when i type ifconfig i get:

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:F6:12:14:D5
          inet addr:192.168.123.107  Bcast:192.168.123.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20c:f6ff:fe12:14d5/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:34058 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:38465 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:30396625 (28.9 Mb)  TX bytes:3645678 (3.4 Mb)
          Memory:ed800000-ed801fff

that's after i typed

 ifconfig lo up

as you can see, i dont have the 127.0.0.1, and therefore giftd doesn't work.

Everytime i enabled my PCI ethernet card it worked. now that i have the wireless pci card, lo never turns on.

how can i enable it?

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#1 2005-03-17 10:28:19

WiFi problem on my computer

#2 2005-03-17 10:36:45

Re: WiFi problem on my computer

#3 2005-03-17 13:59:00

Re: WiFi problem on my computer

#4 2005-03-17 14:08:05

Re: WiFi problem on my computer

#5 2005-03-17 14:52:37

Re: WiFi problem on my computer

#6 2005-03-17 16:05:02

Re: WiFi problem on my computer

#7 2005-03-17 16:45:37

Re: WiFi problem on my computer

#8 2005-03-21 23:33:00

Re: WiFi problem on my computer

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