advice please, wireless 802.11 Linksys WMP54G on RH 8

This has been a 3 day project so far. Any advice would be appreciated.

I'm basically following the instructions here:

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/p...p?Installation

I compiled a 2.4.29 kernel that looks ok now, and I'm booted into it.
It pretty much looks good except I can;'t get the HID modules to load.

I got wireless_tools_28 from tuxfinder and installed them

I got ndiswrapper-1.0rc2 through sourceforge and installed it.

I pulled the windows driver for the card, RT2500.INF and installed it
with ndiswrapper

I installed wpa_supplicant-0.2.6 and installed it (in anticipation of
using WEP)

Using the wireless tools I tried to set up the card. WEP is off on the
ap.

If did the ifconfig up on wlan0.

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OK those are pretty much all of the installs. The kernel was a bear,
and I still dont have HID for some reason even though I built in every
HID module I could find..

Now, here is the machine state:

Warning: Driver for device wlan0 has been compiled with version 16
of Wireless Extension, while this program is using version 13.
Some things may be broken...

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"home" Nickname:"tux"
Mode:Auto Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point:
00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate=54Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=-120 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:100/0 Signal level:-59 dBm Noise level:-256
dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:3 Invalid misc:7188 Missed beacon:0

I got the latest versions of what I could find from tuxfinder and
sourceforge.

The really odd part is the instructions said I need to "scan", but
iwlist says there is no such command:

[tux@tux ndiswrapper-1.0rc2]# /sbin/iwlist wlan0 scan
iwlist: unknown command `scan'

[tux@tux ndiswrapper-1.0rc2]# /sbin/iwlist
Usage: iwlist [interface] frequency
[interface] channel
[interface] ap
[interface] accesspoints
[interface] bitrate
[interface] rate
[interface] encryption
[interface] key
[interface] power
[interface] txpower
[interface] retry

Also I tried to set the ap MAC with ipconfig but it only stays all 0's.
Advice on where to look/go from here is appreciated!

Buell Boy (X1W)

in advice please wireless 802.11 on RH8's honest opinion:

> This has been a 3 day project so far. Any advice would be appreciated.
>
> I'm basically following the instructions here:
>

[cut]

i'm using

ndiswrapper-0.12
wireless-tools-27

and iwlist scan is available on my distro:

# iwlist
Usage: iwlist [interface] scanning
[interface] frequency
[interface] channel
[interface] bitrate
[interface] rate
[interface] encryption
[interface] key
[interface] power
[interface] txpower
[interface] retry
[interface] ap
[interface] accesspoints
[interface] peers
[interface] event

anyway i think that there are some new capabilities in the new generation of
wireless-tools so you'd better to read carefully README inside. probably
you'd need to change some settings with iwpriv, and then you'll be able to
use iwspy instead of iwlist scan.

.... i suppose...
--
Hekaton Keires,
En to phronein maedhen aedistos bios.

Hekaton Keires wrote:
> in advice please wireless 802.11 on RH8's honest opinion:
>
> > This has been a 3 day project so far. Any advice would be
appreciated.
> >
> > I'm basically following the instructions here:
> >
>
> [cut]
>
> i'm using
>
> ndiswrapper-0.12
> wireless-tools-27
>
> and iwlist scan is available on my distro:
>
> # iwlist
> Usage: iwlist [interface] scanning
> [interface] frequency
> [interface] channel
> [interface] bitrate
> [interface] rate
> [interface] encryption
> [interface] key
> [interface] power
> [interface] txpower
> [interface] retry
> [interface] ap
> [interface] accesspoints
> [interface] peers
> [interface] event
>
> anyway i think that there are some new capabilities in the new
generation of
> wireless-tools so you'd better to read carefully README inside.
probably
> you'd need to change some settings with iwpriv, and then you'll be
able to
> use iwspy instead of iwlist scan.
>
> ... i suppose...
> --
> Hekaton Keires,
> En to phronein maedhen aedistos bios.


Thank-You Mr Keires, I will start with the wireless tools README and
see what's what. Oddly I'm using #28, which seems to have *fewer*
features than you have on 27! Perhaps there is some priv issue..
Thanks,
BB

Hekaton Keires wrote:
> in advice please wireless 802.11 on RH8's honest opinion:
>
> > This has been a 3 day project so far. Any advice would be
appreciated.
> >
> > I'm basically following the instructions here:
> >
>
> [cut]
>
> i'm using
>
> ndiswrapper-0.12
> wireless-tools-27
>
> and iwlist scan is available on my distro:
>
> # iwlist
> Usage: iwlist [interface] scanning
> [interface] frequency
> [interface] channel
> [interface] bitrate
> [interface] rate
> [interface] encryption
> [interface] key
> [interface] power
> [interface] txpower
> [interface] retry
> [interface] ap
> [interface] accesspoints
> [interface] peers
> [interface] event
>
> anyway i think that there are some new capabilities in the new
generation of
> wireless-tools so you'd better to read carefully README inside.
probably
> you'd need to change some settings with iwpriv, and then you'll be
able to
> use iwspy instead of iwlist scan.
>
> ... i suppose...
> --
> Hekaton Keires,
> En to phronein maedhen aedistos bios.


Hello again...

Just re-read the README and there are really no build options. Privs
shouldn't be an issue- I'm su'ed. Maybe I should try version 27 ?

BB

> > --
> > Hekaton Keires,
> > En to phronein maedhen aedistos bios.
>
>
> Hello again...
>
> Just re-read the README and there are really no build options. Privs
> shouldn't be an issue- I'm su'ed. Maybe I should try version 27 ?
>
> BB

... no luck I don't see any way to get "scan" from the wireless tools..