WIFI WPA help Linux/Feisty AMD64

[davekusa]

Can anyone help me get WPA set up on Linux/Feisty AMD64?

 

[Zerileous]

There should be a program called network manager. Im on Edgy, but it should have an icon in the top right corner.

Also, to see if your hardware is detected, can you type the following into the terminal: "ifconfig" "iwconfig" "iwlist scan" and post the results.

 

[Shelnutt2]

apt-get install network-manager


log out and log back in and you'll have it. It will auto start and put a icon in the system tray. Next to your existing network icon. Right click the icon, and select the network you want.

 

[davekusa]

dave@G13:~$ apt-get install network-manager
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
dave@G13:~$ sudo apt-get install network-manager
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
network-manager is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 56 not upgraded.
dave@G13:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1A:4D:40:4D:46
inet addr:192.168.0.107 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21a:4dff:fe40:4d46/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:73335 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:19917 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:37222316 (35.4 MiB) TX bytes:10293827 (9.8 MiB)
Interrupt:16

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:210117308 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:210117308 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2421034818386 (2.2 TiB) TX bytes:2421034818386 (2.2 TiB)

ra0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:18:35:F8:57
inet6 addr: fe80::250:18ff:fe35:f857/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2564992 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:120410048 (114.8 MiB)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0x8000

ra0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:18:35:F8:57
inet addr:169.254.6.179 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:18 Base address:0x8000

dave@G13:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

ra0 RT2500 Wireless ESSID:"default"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power:0 dBm
RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=-40 dBm Noise level:-192 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth0 no wireless extensions.

dave@G13:~$ iwlist
Usage: iwlist [interface] scanning
[interface] frequency
[interface] channel
[interface] bitrate
[interface] rate
[interface] encryption
[interface] key
[interface] power
[interface] txpower
[interface] retry
[interface] ap
[interface] accesspoints
[interface] peers
[interface] event
dave@G13:~$

network manager icon version 0.6.4
no wpa encryption

 

[Shelnutt2]

sorry, its "sudo apt-get install network-manager"

but thats right. With Feisty Fawn they were going to start including it by default.

It looks like its not recognizing your wireless card or else "iwconfig" would have showed a device.

What is your wireless card?

 

[davekusa]

its a off brand. Encore
If I get a different wifi card will the WPA encryption work?
Is it a driver issue with the card?

I think it recognizes it the RT2500 under iwconfig.

 

[Shelnutt2]

its a off brand. Encore
If I get a different wifi card will the WPA encryption work?
Is it a driver issue with the card?

I think it recognizes it the RT2500 under iwconfig.

It is the drivers. Whats the model number of this "Encore" card? If there are no linux drivers for it, use ndiskwrapper to use the windows drivers for it.

 

[davekusa]

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA BABY.

It's the card!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have 3 of these Encore cards and 2 d-link cards.
The one card that worked is a D-link DWL-510
The DWL-520 didn't work and none of the Encore cards work on linux

Thank You for all your HELP

It takes so little to make me happy

 

[davekusa]

sudo apt-get ndiskwrapper ?

 

[Shelnutt2]

sudo apt-get ndiskwrapper ?

ndiswrapper**

I misspelled it .

(and its sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper)

Also you googled your card model #'s for linux drivers?


All in all, glad it worked for ya.


(http://www.samwel.tk/bart/various/dwl-510-on-linux-2.6.html)
(http://rtl8180-sa2400.sourceforge.net/)
(http://list.driverguide.com/list/LINUX/company368/index.html)

 

[Zerileous]

no luck then?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=40016

 

[davekusa]

Well it looks like its just going to be easier to get a different wifi card

I got the ndiswrapper installed. I saw the link and got lost really-really fast.
I can't get ndiswrapper to run.