Help with setting up wireless internet on Ubuntu please

Diss

Diss

Diss

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Hi

Situation is:

Ubuntu 8.04 with attached WN121T USB wireless antenna
Don't think the WN121T is detected hardware as the little blue light isn't flashing

Netgear DG834N wireless router in the other room
I know the signal works as its OK on a XP setup
Running WPA-PSK security encryption

Have installed the NDIS wireless drivers' through Synaptic - these appear as an item in the system/administration menu - though nothing seems to happen when i run it - or is it running from startup (pretty sure i got some sort of window up once but can't recall what it was about).

Should these drivers work for me with a USB antenna running wireless N??

If i right click on the network connection icon in the system tray i get an option to edit wireless networks (ahh - this opens the NDIS window i mentioned earlier). It doesn't show any info about any wireless network.

If i left click on the network connection icon in the system tray i get an option to "Connect to 802.1x wired network" (i assume this is a wording error and should read 'wireless') - if i click on this i get this screen:
photo

http://picasaweb.google.com/voteslave/OC/photo#5230213985187016130
[How do i show this as a picture rather than a link?]

Most of the fields here mean nothing to me - do they all need to be completed?

Also - will this mean my hardware gets detected?

many thanks

Diss
 
i have also downloaded 2 files:

WN121T.inf
WN121TXP.sys

but not sure what to do with them

do i somehow need to get them 'into' the NDIS wrapper thingy??

thanks

Diss
 
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seems there is a signal

:~$ sudo iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 03 - Address: 00:1B:2F:3C:CD:DE
ESSID:"NETWORK"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality:46/100 Signal level:-66 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Encryption key: on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : CCMP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
 
Wireless is still one of baines of Linux, The easiest way is to by a Linux compatible, wireless network adapter. I use the Ralink RT61 Chipset which is supported in Ubuntu, I can't remember the exact model but it is edimax. Its not Wireless N, but Edimax have new cards which they supply Linux source code for. I don't know if they are in the distros yet though.

I know this isn't an immediate help, but I have tried NDSI wrapper and never got it working, its much easier to use a supported card.
 
just clicked on the network icon and there were all the wireless networks detected
chose mine and entered the password and now all works fine - though i think its only
wireless G

:D :D :D :D
 
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