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UltraDangerLord
May 28th, 2008, 07:06 PM
Hello All,

So I've been trying to connect to the internet using this wireless card a d-link DWL-520+.

Obviously I'm missing a step on just not doing something right...
I think it recoginizes the card now. it just cant find the networks. also the network i am connecting to is unsecured to make it easier....however i never entered this info anywhere...

I found some info on the driver needed and instructions on making this work properly here.

http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/Distribution_list/Ubuntu

which tells me to do this...(basically disable network manager)

sudo /etc/dbus-1/event.d/25NetworkManager stop
sudo /etc/dbus-1/event.d/26NetworkManagerDispatcher stop
echo "exit" > /etc/default/NetworkManager
echo "exit" > /etc/default/NetworkManagerDispatcher
sudo ifdown wlan0
sudo ifup wlan0

now at first when i entered

sudo ifdown wlan0
sudo ifup wlan0

it gave a message saying wlan0 is not configured

so i added it to the /etc/network/interfaces file.

after that i rebooted the system... and it gave me this...

ultradangerlord@ultradangerlord-desktop:~$ ifconfig
wlan0
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:c8:11:f5:b1

UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 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:1000

RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

Interrupt:19 Base address:0xe800


wlan0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet
HWaddr 00:80:c8:11:f5:b1

inet addr:169.254.9.141 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0


UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

Interrupt:19 Base address:0xe800



ultradangerlord@ultradangerlord-desktop:~$ sudo ifdown

wlan0
[sudo] password for ultradangerlord:
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.wlan0.pid with pid 5493
killed old client process, removed PID file


Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6
Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/



Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:80:c8:11:f5:b1
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:80:c8:11:f5:
b1
Sending on
Socket/fallback
grep: /etc/resolv.conf: No such file or directory
ultradangerlord@ultradangerlord-desktop:~$ sudo ifup wlan0


There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.wlan0.pid with pid 134519072
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6
Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/


Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:80:c8:11:f5:b1
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:80:c8:11:f5:b1
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
grep: /etc/resolv.conf: No such file or directory
ultradangerlord@ultradangerlord-desktop:~$


apparently all version of ubuntu 6 and later have the driver on it by default you just have to turn off the network manager.. but after that the documentation gets pretty vague

UltraDangerLord
May 29th, 2008, 01:34 PM
Bump

prshah
May 30th, 2008, 02:00 PM
So I've been trying to connect to the internet using this wireless card a d-link DWL-520+.

Obviously I'm missing a step on just not doing something right...


Why not try my step-by-step guide (with expected outputs) (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=756260) to set up your wireless? If you're sure your card is detected, you can jump straight to step 9. If you run into any problems, post back here with which step you are stuck at.