Muahhahahahaha, now you will all taste my disease! It's like spoiling a movie, you can't unlearn it!Quote:
Originally Posted by s2k
I'm going to try the 2.6.17 kernel thanks to the /. story, I'll let you guys know how it goes.
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Muahhahahahaha, now you will all taste my disease! It's like spoiling a movie, you can't unlearn it!Quote:
Originally Posted by s2k
I'm going to try the 2.6.17 kernel thanks to the /. story, I'll let you guys know how it goes.
Ok i think i have a new finding. when i have a wired connection to my router and im viewing a site such a google images and i disconnect the plug from my laptop i notice that if i click links in the same site the page loads and packets are being sent and recived on the wireless connection. But i cannot go to sites such as yahoo.com, gamefaqs.com.....
Maybe I should have said this "procedure".Quote:
Originally Posted by s2k
Yeah, I'm way too much of a noob to deal with 288 warnings/errors. 2.6.17 is going to have to remain a mystery for the time being.
Great news, I got it! My steps were fairly simple.
Step 0: Make sure it's plugged in (to the wired lan).
Step 1: Format the hard drive and re-install from the Dapper 6.06 disk.
Step 2: Run the script from the tarball per your instructions in the first post
Step 3: Enable eth1 in the Networking admin tool.
Step 4: sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome
Step 5: Reboot.
Edit:
Step 6: Install automatix and begin running it.
Step 7: Notice that it gets stuck mid download (side effect of a fickle signal and an installer that doesn't retry anything) and attempt to jump start it by pressing the "enable/disable wlan" button on the keyboard twice. Noting that the software connection strength meter dropped to zero when I pressed it the first time then never came back.
Step 8: Disable then re-enable eth1 in the Network admin tool, noting that the signal strength meter returned to it's normal (albiet probably incorrect) 100%. Also noting that it won't surf the internet... or ping out... but it did have a good IP and a signal.
Step 9: Cry, then simultaneously pray and reboot.
Step 10: Wonder why gnome locks on bootup.
Step 11: GOTO step 0.
THANK YOU!!!111Quote:
Originally Posted by teryret
im not sure exactly what i just did but it seemed to have worked. Im using automatix right now over my wireless connection...=D> .....but i hope to god this works when i restart:confused:
Edit: Didn't see the third page, some of this is repeated.
Edit 2: You can edit /etc/modules and add ndiswrapper to the bottom...I will update the script to do that automatically. This fixed a few problems, such as running the dumb thing at every boot.
I WIN :D
Ok, so it appears that there was an update maybe? that everyone downloaded that broke it. Anyways, running dhclient fixed it for me :D
I did, in this order, all as superuser
If your ISP gave you DNS servers you have to use, add them in the network manager under the DNS tab.Code:modprobe ndiswrapper
[push wifi button on computer - it didn't light up, pushing it fixed it]
ifdown eth1 [where eth1 is the network interface]
ifup eth1
dhclient
Otherwise, it should work :D
YAY!! It works.
Thanks, it works.
I had to run dos2unix on the ndiswrapper_setup script file for some reason. Not sure if anybody else had to do that. I also had to execute
to stop the wired lan port since it was set as the default gateway. After that it seems to work fine.Code:$ sudo ifdown eth0
Not why the wl_apsta.o nor bcmwl5.sys don't don't work directly. I'm going to try to keep working with that too to see if I can get it to work. I think there actually included in the 2.6.17 kernel.
The Network Manager Applet doesn't seem to work now. Possibly because the wireless lan is now identified as wlan0 instead of eth1. I can live with that for now.
Has there been any discussion on somehow making netowrking automaticlly select the best lan for the gateway?
This works great.. been using it for about a week with no problems.. but you could make it even easier by including ndis with the script ;)
That would be nice...but there is a ~800kb size limit on files, and the drivers are rather large - about 75% of that. Maybe I'll try later...
EDIT: It is updated. Have fun.