Wifi on Thinkpad/Ubuntu

[calyco]

In device manager I see my Netgear MA521 listed as a RTL8180L PC card but the wireless tray icon shows no wireless devices available. Anyone know how to get this card working under Ubuntu?

 

[ChuaChua]

Hello,

I think you need to install the ndis drivers first.
Ubuntu detected my Broadcom wireless card (eMachines m6809) and I can't turn on the wireless card.
Ndis needs to be installed.
I think that's the problem. I have yet to install ndis, by the way.

 

[calyco]

I installed the drivers, did "modprobe ndiswrapper". Now the "link" light on the wireless card lights up but I still cant connect to the internet.

 

[hone02]

you have to connect to the wireless network w/ the wireless tools, iwconfig. If it is already connected you need to dhclient to get an ip address.

 

[calyco]

How about enabling WEP? I tried to enter my WEP key (hex, 64 bit) as "sudo iwconfig wlan0 key XXXXXXXXXX" or formatted as XXXX-XXXX-XX, both through network preferences and the terminal but it dosent seem to work. When WEP is disabled the wireless network works so Im positive its a problem with WEP.

 

[calyco]

Anyone know the difference between a shared key and a open system key? I was finally able to get my wifi to work on 128bit hex wep by changing it from open system to shared.

 

[thunderroller]

did you go through wizard

 

[calyco]

Nope, I already had my PC card and WEP key added in Network Preferences and all I do is:

modprobe ndiswrapper
ifup wlan0

Now if I can only figure out hot to have it startup automatically after each reboot