Would really appreciate if someone can help me with this issue.
Trying to setup a wireless card based on Realtek 8185 chipset with ndiswrapper 1.9 and wpa_supplicant 0.4.7 on Sarge (kernel 2.4.27). Executing "wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -Dndiswrapper -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf" indicates that the network is connected but I am not able to ping any hosts. Also, my router does not indicate that the device is attached.
Followed these setup steps:
1) built ndiswrapper from source and did "make install"
2) ndiswrapper -e <path to inf file>
3) ndiswrapper -m
4) added ndiswrapper to /etc/modules
5) added package wpa_supplicant and configured it as below:
---------------------- wpa_supplicant.conf ----------------------------
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1
# WPA-PSK
network={
ssid="MYSSID"
key_mgmt=NONE
wep_key0=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
wep_tx_keyidx=0
}
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------------------------- /etc/default/wpasupplicant --------------------
ENABLED=1
OPTIONS="-iwlan0 -Dndiswrapper -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf"
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6) Configured interfaces file as below:
------------------------ /etc/network/interfaces -------------------------
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
name Ethernet LAN card
address 192.168.0.3
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.0.255
network 192.168.0.0
gateway 192.168.0.1
# Wireless
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
pre-up /etc/init.d/wpasupplicant start
pre-up sleep 5
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7) To test, I tried "wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -Dndiswrapper -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf"... This gives the following output:
--------------------- wpa_supplicant -------------------------------------
ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device
Trying to associate with 00:0f:b5:7a:32:e2 (SSID='23kelvin' freq=2462 MHz)
Associated with 00:0f:b5:7a:32:e2
CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:0f:b5:7a:32:e2 completed (auth)
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iwconfig output as follows:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"23kelvin"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:0F:B5:7A:32:E2
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
RTS thr:2432 B Fragment thr:2432 B
Encryption key:XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-55 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
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Please help,
-- Karthik.