Belkin F5D7000 wireless card (BCM4306 chipset) Ubuntu 6.06 OS, D-Link DI-524 Router Win WP will not network?
I am trying to set up wireless connection on older Dell computer to a windows based network. The computer has Ubuntu 6.06 installed as the operating system. It has a Belkin F5D7000 wireless card which uses the BCM4306 chipset. The router I am trying to connect to is a D-Link DI-524 with the latest firmware installed. I used ndiswrapper and the bcmwl5.inf driver as per Ubuntu forums. I know that the network is set up correctly because 2 Dell laptops also running Window XP can connect to it.
The computer will connect to my Belkin network so I am pretty sure that I have the card set up and the drivers installed correctly. But it will not connect to my father’s D-Link network. Both networks have WEP enabled. I could not get connected to the dlink network when I disabled WEP. The computer “sees” the dlink network but will not connect.
Cell 01 – Address: 00:15:E9:1B:02:BA
ESSID:”dlink”
Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.432 GHz (Channel 5)
You shouldn’t need to connect to an ad hoc network between the computers directly, just connect all the computers to the router, and then access them using the internal network IP addresses (I have that same router, and that’s what I do. The IP’s will be 192.168.0.10 for the first computer connected, 192.168.0.11 for the second, and so on. You can use ipconfig on the windows boxes to find out what their IP is for sure)
Sometimes you just need to reset the router. Unplug it for a few seconds and then plug it back in again. If your linux box can connect to the internet proper, then you know you got it right and it’s just a matter of figuring out the IP addresses.
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