By using the theory of cavity QED, we study the system in which a two-level atom interacts with a cavity in the case of large detuning. Through the selective detecting of atomic state, SchrSdinger cat states and entangled coherent states are easily generated. When the atom is driven by a weak classical field and the cavity field is in the Schr(o)dinger cat state, we study the conditions of generating the Fock states and the maximal success probability. The maximal success probability in our scheme is larger than the previous one.