Router Trouble - Setting up Wireless Network

[William_Tolley]

Hello and thanks for helping ahead of time.

I am almost a complete newb to Linux (half a year or so), and I am trying to get the computer to recognize my router. It is a Belkin F5D7321-4. I had another router and my modem's lights would not show a connection, now however, my modem appears to be connected (all lights on flashing), and the router seems to be working (all lights on), however when I hook up the router, the LAN connection does not work, so I haven't even tried to set up a wireless network.

Is there a dependency it sounds like I need, or something need to be edited in xorg.conf?

Thanks again in advance!

[stevea]

I seriously doubt you need any extra packages.

Which Fedora are yo running ?

Did your system have an IP address assigned ? To test, in a terminal window try yhr commands
su -
/sbin/ifconfig
and post the result.

[BLooDMaN]

Do you have a fresh router or it was configured before is used?
When you plug internet cable to PC does appear light in front of current ethernet port? If so, try ifconfig as told stevea

[William_Tolley]

I'm running Fedora 8: Here is the ifconfig:
Bloodman: I have reset the router a few times.

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:17:310:88:F6
inet addr:192.168.2.2 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::217:31ff:fec0:88f6/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:236403 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:199213 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:302314490 (288.3 MiB) TX bytes:26048908 (24.8 MiB)
Interrupt:16

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:5908 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5908 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4101290 (3.9 MiB) TX bytes:4101290 (3.9 MiB)

[BLooDMaN]

So, there are several questions:
1. Have you configured your previous router? It's possible you have to enter your ip address and other information about connection directly into router. To do this go to http://192.168.2.1
2. It seems like you get your internal ip address and there is a problem with connection with your ISP. You have to know if there is MAC filtering.

[William_Tolley]

Thanks Stevea and Bloodman. I finally got it to bypass through Ethernet to my CPU (Both my modem and router use the same IP, had to change the router and renew my ip).

Now do I have to do anything to it to have my laptop get a wireless signal? Or do I only have to have my Laptop configured to find/receive it?

Thanks again

[William_Tolley]

My wireless card is a Broadcom 4311 (AirForce 54g) 802.11a

I have read the forums and don't exactly understand what ndiswrapper or fwcutter are.

[William_Tolley]

Alright sorry for Newbocity, but I have become better educated, but still have a problem

I installed b43-fwcutter and used it to update the firmware of my wireless card in my laptop (thanks to r1348).
The Wifi indicator lights up now, but I am still unable to connect.

I thought the problem might be the firmware for my router, but I was able to connect my Wii wirelessly.

After installing the firmware for the wireless card should I use the b43 or the Broadcom 4311 (AirForce 54g) 802.11a option when creating a wireless connection? I have tried a million different things and cant get it to work.

I have the SSID set, and everything else to automatic, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.