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Help with WPC11 v.3 on Xandros 3.0

by lucianm Jul 6, 2006 2:14AM PDT

I recently installed Destop Deluxe Ed. 3.0 on an old Sony PCG-FX140 laptop. All works pretty good apart from wireless (which, judging by the posts in this forum, seems to be a wide spread problem).
I have a Linksys WPC11 ver. 3 PCI card. In the Network Connection center, I see the eth1, in the wireless section, my Wireless home network is seen (albeit at only 45% signal strength), but I can't get an IP address from my AP.
What I did:

ifconfig eth1 up
dhclient eth1 - received No DHCPOFFERS message

I have the original disk with Windows drivers but when I try to add them (via the ndiswrapper), I get an invalid driver message.

Why is the card able to see the AP but still not get an IP address?

I tried to recompile the kernel (as it was suggested on a number of places), but had only errors.

Can anyone help?
All suggestion wil be appreciated.

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DHCP on?
by linkit Jul 6, 2006 5:38AM PDT

Is your router's DHCP server functionality enabled/on?

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WPC11 v3
by lucianm Jul 6, 2006 10:34AM PDT

Yes, DHCP is on on the router. The card sees the wireless network, the interface just doesn't get an IP address and it wouldn't work even if I manually assign an IP address. Most likely the problem is a driver problem, but I don't know how to make sure that I load the right driver.

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wireless not working
by jdw Jul 11, 2006 3:37PM PDT

try stopping eth1 manually from the command line first
then starting it up manually like this...


ifdown eth1
ifup eth1


HTH

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Did it....it's not that
by lucianm Jul 12, 2006 3:18AM PDT

thanks for the advice....I did that but it doesn't solve the problem as the issue is not a downed interface (I can see the available wireless networks, just can't connect to them), but more of a device driver.
I am having difficulty loading a suitable driver for this card (some step-by-step instructions here would really help) or instructions on how to recompile the kernel.

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Had this same problem
by chuckieu Jul 12, 2006 7:54AM PDT

with an old laptop. Went through all the steps you did, and then some. The only solution was installing Damn Small Linux. Works like a charm and runs faster than other distros I tried. Hope this helps. chuck

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DSL - a good alternative
by lucianm Jul 12, 2006 11:09AM PDT

I am familiar with DSL...maybe I will give it a try. Recently, I spoke with a Xandros rep at the C3 Exihibit at Javits Center and he told me that Xandros is about to release the new version 4.0, that, according to him, will contain a lot more drivers and this type of problems should be a thing of the past....We shall see...Untill then, I guess I will try alternatives.
Thanks for the advice.

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