Wireless device appears to be configured properly but I cannot ping my router!

[Pete Holsberg]

jerry keyed the following on 6/19/2007 8:45 AM:

<snip>
>> It appears to me from your iwconfig that the wireless card      did not 
>> locate your ESSID and Access Point.
>>
>> Did you verify that the ndiswrapper is setup properly?
>> sudo ndiswrapper -l
>>     

mrv8000c: device installed
device (11AB:1FAA) present
>> Did you restart your network?
>> sudo /etc/init.d/networking/ restart
>>     

Got "no such device" error messages for eth1, eth2, ath0 and SIOCSIFADDR.

Also, "run-parts: /etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-autoipd exited with return 
code 2"

>> Do I recall correctly that you have a Ralink 2500 chipset?
>> I have never used that chipset but unless you have newer/better info, 
>> the website I posted says:
>>
>> "Now because Ubuntu Feisty is using an applet called Network Manager and 
>> considering that it does not work with any Ralink based chipsets, you 
>> might as well kick it to the curb. You can safely uninstall it without 
>> any hassles.
>>
>> Goto System, Administration and select Synaptic. You can use this tool 
>> to remove network-manager. If you are unfamiliar with Synaptic, use this 
>> tute <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticHowto> for assistance.
>>
>> After removing Network-Manager, you should use Synaptic again to install 
>> a program called wifi-radar. Once this is installed, now you will want 
>> to download this zip file 
>> <http://www.computertroubleshoot.com/lg/wireless.zip>."
>>     
First I have to get wifi-radar in a debian package; my linux machine has 
no Interent connection.

Thanks.

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