How to get wireless adapter to work with Mandriva?

What does ifconfig shows, and/or iwconfig ?

Next you can try, where wlan0 is the wireless adapter.

iwlist wlan0 scanning

Does this output anything? It should come up with accessible wireless hotspots.

Also sometimes wireless cards, are configuredas eth1 istead as wlan0.

Hello!

I got this output, it seems that it just do not work:

[root@linux_2 fredrik]# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:c018 Logitech, Inc. Optical Wheel Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0586:341a ZyXEL Communications Corp. NWD-270N Wireless N-lite USB Adapter
Bus 005 Device 004: ID 0fce:e0d4 Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB C902 Phone [Mass Storage]

[root@linux_2 fredrik]# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1D:92:2E:EF:DF 
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:27 Base address:0x4000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:136 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:136 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:7740 (7.5 KiB)  TX bytes:7740 (7.5 KiB)


[root@linux_2 fredrik]# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

wlan0    IEEE 802.11bgn  Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated 
          Tx-Power=0 dBm 
          Retry  long limit:7  RTS thr:off  Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:on
         
eth0      no wireless extensions.

[root@linux_2 fredrik]# iwlist wlan0 scanning
wlan0    Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down

Best regards Fredrik

As you can see with iwconfig, that card seems to be recognized as wlan0

Try:
You get the scan error, because the interface is not up.

First bring up the wlan0 interface
iwconfig wlan0 up

Next you should be able to scan.
iwlist wlan0 scanning

If you can see hotspots here, it is working, but I do not know how to configure this in Mandrake GUI, since I am not familiar with Mandrake. I run Debian myself, with Gnome and using nm-applet.

http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/

Hello!

I tried iwconfig wlan0 up, but "up" does not seems to work.
I found this site:
http://www.linux-tutorial.info/modules.php?name=ManPage&sec=8&manpage=iwconfig
...and tried:
iwconfig wlan0 ap any that I guess should try to connect to the best access point.

But I also tried iwlist wlan0 scanning but it still says:
Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down

If you got or see any clues, it is most welcome!
Best regards
Fredrik

Maybe it is ifconfig wlan0 up :)

Or just ifup wlan0 ....

Hello!

I tried but still no luck.

I got:


[root@linux_2 fredrik]# ifup wlan0
RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory
Wireless device wlan0 is configured with a roaming daemon but isn't associated

Determining IP information for wlan0...SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
failed.
[root@linux_2 fredrik]#

Sounds like I missing something when it says:
No such file or directory
??

Do you got any ideas from this?

Best regards
Fredrik

No, sorry.

Did you make it work ?

Hello!

Thanks for all your help!

Actually I returned my zyxel usb adapter and changed to d-link dwl-g122 and it works out of the box.

Thanks to this site:
http://linux-wless.passys.nl/

Best regards
Fredrik