Finally after weeks of trying to figure out what went wrong... I got my WiLAN working at home! Hehehe! Just had to install the latest firmware for my router. My friend adviced me to do this before but I didn't! Makulit kasi ako!
Well here's what I did:
1. Reinstalled Ubuntu
2. Downloaded the firmware update for my Linksys router at www.linksys.com/sg
3. Setup WEP
I'm so happy!
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 | Posted by Ayan at 9:54 PM 0 comments
Labels: Feisty Fawn, Linksys, wifi
So I got my Linksys broadband router and it seems to work with my other WIFI enabled devices but not my MSI Laptop! Darn!
Here's what I'm doing so far...
1. I install the wifi tools for ubuntu
sudo apt-get install wireless-tools
2. Tried identifying what card I have
lspci
and got
04:09.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11g
3. I tried checking with the wifi tools
iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
ra1 RT61 Wireless ESSID:"DeatoWIFI" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:1E:E5:48:47:77
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Link Quality=100/100 Signal level:-38 dBm Noise level:-79 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
ppp0 no wireless extensions.
I learned two things...
- That the wireless card on my laptop is using RT61 chipset driver
- That it is detecting the AP but I just need to make sure that the driver is properly installed.
Will play around with the config and will let you guys know what happens... :)
Wednesday, April 2, 2008 | Posted by Ayan at 10:23 PM 0 comments
