How to connect with wlan?

**majhen** · 11-25-2004, 12:30 PM

Hello! I'm newbie to linux and knoppix. My sistem boot fine with knoppix live cd, but i don't know how to connect to internet. My network card is "Belkin wireless netobook network card f5d6020". What do i have to do to connect to internet? How do I find out what is my network card(eth0,eth1,wlan0,wlan1 or something else)?

Code:

knoppix@ttyp1[knoppix]$ cardctl status
Socket 0:
  no card
Socket 1:
  3.3V CardBus card
  function 0: [ready]

knoppix@ttyp1[knoppix]$ cardctl ident
Socket 0:
  no product info available
Socket 1:
  product info: "Realtek", "Rtl8180"
  manfid: 0x0000, 0x024c
  function: 6 (network)

knoppix@ttyp1[knoppix]$ ifconfig
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:900 (900.0 b)  TX bytes:900 (900.0 b)

knoppix@ttyp1[knoppix]$ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems CPU to PCI and PCI to ISA bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:07.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics 56k WinModem (rev 01)
0000:00:08.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ViRGE/MX (rev 06)
0000:00:0b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 02)
0000:00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E (rev 10)
0000:00:10.0 IDE interface: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0102 (rev 34)
0000:00:13.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC95 (rev 07)
0000:00:13.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC95 (rev 07)
0000:15:00.0 Ethernet controller: Belkin Wireless PCMCIA Card - F5D6020 (rev 20)

knoppix@ttyp1[knoppix]$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

My XP configuration is:

Code:

Physical Address: 00-30-BD-4E-38-46
IP Address: 10.0.2.151
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 10.0.2.1
DHCP Server: 192.168.100.213
Lease Obtained: 25.11.2004 12:12:21
Lease Expires: 26.11.2004 0:14:01
DNS Servers: 213.143.80.85, 213.143.80.90, 193.2.1.66

Please help![/code]

**ghaze** · 11-25-2004, 04:16 PM

I don't have a card like yours,so I have no way to test this.
If you are using knoppix 3.6,your card ought to be supported.
There is an atmel_cs module for both kernels.
Your card is listed in /etc/pcmcia/atmel.conf.The manfid number is
different than cardctl info gave you,though.From what I could find out,
there are 2 versions of your card.If you have version 2,it ought to
work.If you have the unmarked ver.1,you might be out of luck.
Your iwconfig output is not encouraging.
If your card was recognized,it would have been listed (and given you the
interface name,to answer your other question).

**enemorales** · 11-26-2004, 09:54 PM

I dont have the same card, bu maybe to take a look at http://www.houseofcraig.net/belkin_howto.php would be useful for you.

Good luck...

**majhen** · 12-01-2004, 02:50 PM

Hello! I found out that my wlan card "Belkin Wireless PCMCIA Card - F5D6020 (rev 20)" uses Realtek Rtl8180 chipset. There are 3 versions of this card. My is 3rd version. Other use prism or atmel chipset. I also tried with ndiswrapper and my belkin drivers for xp and downloaded realtek drivers rtl8180.inf. No success. It said that driver is loaded but no new devices installed.

I will not give up yet! Bye!

**grant_vallance** · 12-02-2004, 12:16 PM

Originally Posted by majhen

Hello! I found out that my wlan card "Belkin Wireless PCMCIA Card - F5D6020 (rev 20)" uses Realtek Rtl8180 chipset. There are 3 versions of this card. My is 3rd version. Other use prism or atmel chipset. I also tried with ndiswrapper and my belkin drivers for xp and downloaded realtek drivers rtl8180.inf. No success. It said that driver is loaded but no new devices installed.

I will not give up yet! Bye!

The "No new devices," message does not mean much, so you can effectively ignore it.

Next what you need to do (in a console as route) is:
1. modprobe ndiswrapper
2. netcardconfig --> and follow the script instructions as per requirements.

There are some fairly detailed instructions on the sticky post Success with Knoppix 3.6 and Wireless Networking. Some of the instructions are not necessary -- they are what I found to have worked initially and the proceedure has been refined somewhat since.

If you have problems come back and I'll try and walk you through it. There are other things that can go wrong ...

Regards,

Grant D. Vallance

**m4tek** · 07-10-2006, 02:23 PM

belkin comes back

so the problem is still not resolved
I have Belkin F5D6020 ver.3000ee (rev 20)
VEN:1799 DEV:6020

I've downloaded all available drivers, and loaded them via ndiswrapper
almost all of give result :

Code:

ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
net8180      driver present, hardware present

but while I'm trying to modprobe ndiswrapper
it shows

Code:

ndiswrapper (wrapper_init:134): loadndiswraper failed (256): chech system log for messages form  'loadndisdriver'
ndiswrapper (wrapper_init:141): ndiswrapper: initialization failed
FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/..../ndiswrapper.ko): Invalid argument

It is Konoppix v. 5.0.1 EN
with kernel 2.6.17 #4

working on
IBM ThinkPad 600X

I have to boot Knoppix via: "knoppix nodma"
otherwise bootloader looks for CD on /dev/hda (hard driver) what cause a hang-up

BTW Of course I can't check the log, because it's empty ...

I'm looking forward for any help about that.
TIA

**mandojim** · 07-14-2006, 01:00 AM

I found that for Knoppix 5.0.1 I had to go to open up a ROOT Shell Command Prompt

Then enter:

IFCONFIG ETH0 UP
ROUTE ADD DEFAULT GW 192.168.2.1

to be able to get my DNS working and get on the internet