need help setting up wireless on my computer

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:17:17 -0600
Brian John <brianjohn at fusemail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I just went to compUSA and bought their generic 802.11g PCI wireless 
> card.  I was able to install it using the windows drivers at ndis0
> (see output from ifconfig below).
> 
> The problem I'm having is I seem to be able to connect, but can't
> talk to anything.  I am using WEP encryption and I am not
> broadcasting my SSID.  My laptop running windows works flawlessly.
> 
> I've tried this command to connect to the network:
> ifconfig ndis0 inet 192.168.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.255 ssid Brian 
> wepmode on wepkey <my key> channel 9
> 
> ...and it seems to connect (see output from ifconfig after connected 
> below).  However, I can't ping my router and I can't get on the 
> Internet.  Can someone please help me out?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> /Brian
> 
> 
> output from ifconfig:
> -----------------------------------
> ifconfig ndis0
> ndis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
>         inet6 fe80::20e:2eff:fe6d:4c9d%ndis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
>         ether 00:0e:2e:6d:4c:9d
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
>         status: no carrier
>         ssid ""
>         channel -1 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
>         rtsthreshold 2312 protmode CTS
>         wepmode MIXED weptxkey 1
>         wepkey 1:40-bit
> 
> output from ifconfig after connected:
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ifconfig ndis0
> ndis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet6 fe80::20e:2eff:fe6d:4c9d%ndis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
>         inet 192.168.0.10 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 192.168.0.10
>         ether 00:0e:2e:6d:4c:9d
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (OFDM/54Mbps)
>         status: associated
>         ssid Brian 1:Brian
>         channel 9 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
>         rtsthreshold 2312 protmode CTS
>         wepmode MIXED weptxkey 1
>         wepkey 1:40-bit
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1. Your netmask should not be 255.255.255.255. Try
255.255.255.0 instead.

2. Have you configured the computer with gateway and name server
information?

3. When in Windows, did you configure the network manually? Or did you
use DHCP?

Best of luck,

Andrew