[olug] Wireless natworking with Netgear router

[Don Kauffman]

Thanks to Jay I've  got it working!!

iwlist showed me that my wireless card was seeing a signal but it
couldn't get on. So then I looked at the Access control. Bingo! It was
on but no MAC address was entered. I turned that off st the router and
then the Wireless card found the signal. I captured its MAC and turned
access control back on and it's still working. 

Coolness!!! 	

Don 

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 15:34 -0600, Jay Swackhamer wrote:
> To test, have wireless turned on in the router, and make sure it is set to
> broadcast the essid, and doesnt have a MAC filter turned on.
> 
> Then on your laptop, do
> (replace ath0 with your wireless lan device, i.e. wlan0, eth1, etc...)
> 
> #iwlist ath0 scan
> 
> do that several times to check
> 
> Quoting Don Kauffman <dekauff at cox.net>:
> 
> > Jay,
> >
> >
> >
> > I have a Netgear wireless 54G router and this card won't pick up that
> > signal. Any possible reasons for that? Signal strength indicator from
> > the card says it isn't picking up anything even though there's only
> > about a foot of space separating the two. At this point, I have wireless
> > turned off in the router but even when it's on it doesn't seem to have
> > any signal.
> >
> > Any tips on troubleshooting this? Or should I just bring it out to you
> > sometime?
> >
> > Don Kauffman
> >
> > On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 09:29 -0600, jay at reboottheuser.com wrote:
> >> Unless it changed in a newer revision the WG511T card has the
> >> 'Atheros' chipset
> >> which is covered by the madwifi drivers.
> >> http://madwifi.org/
> >>
> >> Last time I checked, Turbo mode isnt supported, but you can go to 54G.
> >>
> >>
> >> Quoting "Thomas D. Williamson" <twilliam at inebraska.com>:
> >>
> >> > I have the same card. It requires a "wrapper" making use of Windows
> >> > drivers, as
> >> > Netgear does not provide information to open source or create a Linux
> >> > compatiable driver itself. I brought this up as a topic for a OLUG
> >> > meeting as I
> >> > am not sure which drivers are to be used, these seem to be based on
> >> > XP, while I
> >> > have 2000 drivers. I think they can be taken from the install disk.
> >> >
> >> > I would like a bit of a demo to walk through the process at some point.
> >> >
> >> > Tom Williamson
> >> >
> >> > Quoting Don Kauffman <dekauff at cox.net>:
> >> >
> >> >> Hi all.
> >> >>
> >> >> I'm branching out of my comfort zone again and trying to set up a home
> >> >> wireless network. The problem that I'm experiencing is trying to get my
> >> >> wireless access card to recognize the fact that there is a wireless net
> >> >> work. So far it doesn't seem to be picking up any signal what so ever.
> >> >> (The card works fine in another setting so I don't think there's a
> >> >> problem with the card -- it's probably the user!!) The router is showing
> >> >> that it is putting out a signal so it's probably a misconfiguration
> >> >> issue. My problem is trying to figure out where the misconfiguration
> >> >> is.
> >> >>
> >> >> Here's the setup:
> >> >>
> >> >> Netgear WGR614 v6 54 Mbps router
> >> >> Netgear wireless PCMCIA WG511T 108 Mbps card in a laptop running Ubuntu
> >> >> 5.10
> >> >>
> >> >> I'm wired to the router with a desktop that is also running Ubuntu 5.10
> >> >> (Breezy). I can get to the basic settings web page on the router with
> >> >> firefox and change settings.
> >> >>
> >> >> I've made sure that the SSID's are the same for both and was trying to
> >> >> experiment with the WEP settings which is now disabled in both.
> >> >>
> >> >> If I don't get it set up before Tuesday evening Jay may get a visit from
> >> >> me!!
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks for any assistance!
> >> >>
> >> >> Don K.
> >> >>
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