wg111v2 netgear wi-fi dongle

[David McGlone]

On Friday 28 September 2007 8:10:07 am vineeth.chandran at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi
>
> I tried the foll link to install the drivers for wg111v2.
> http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-netgear-wg111v2-wireless-dongle-ca
>rd-on-ubuntu-edgy.html
>
> root at ubuntu:/home/eaton/vineeth/emily# iwlist wlan0 scanning
> wlan0     Scan completed :
>           Cell 01 - Address: 00:1A:30:64:94:A0
>                     ESSID:""
>                     Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
>                     Mode:Managed
>                     Frequency:2.432 GHz (Channel 5)
>                     Quality:0/100  Signal level:-73 dBm  Noise level:-256
> dBm
>                     Encryption key:on
>                     Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
>                               11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
>                               48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
>                     Extra:bcn_int=100
>                     Extra:atim=0
>           Cell 02 - Address: 02:19:D2:00:00:28
>                     ESSID:"default"
>                     Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
>                     Mode:Ad-Hoc
>                     Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
>                     Quality:0/100  Signal level:-73 dBm  Noise level:-256
> dBm
>                     Encryption key:off
>                     Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
>                               9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
>                               48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
>                     Extra:bcn_int=100
>                     Extra:atim=0
>           Cell 03 - Address: 00:1A:30:64:96:F0
>                     ESSID:""
>                     Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
>                     Mode:Managed
>                     Frequency:2.447 GHz (Channel 8)
>                     Quality:0/100  Signal level:-73 dBm  Noise level:-256
> dBm
>                     Encryption key:on
>                     Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
>                               11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
>                               48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
>                     Extra:bcn_int=100
>                     Extra:atim=0
>           Cell 04 - Address: 02:1B:77:00:00:34
>                     ESSID:"Free Public WiFi"
>                     Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
>                     Mode:Ad-Hoc
>                     Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
>                     Quality:0/100  Signal level:-73 dBm  Noise level:-256
> dBm
>                     Encryption key:off
>                     Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
>                               9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
>                               48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
>                     Extra:bcn_int=100
>                     Extra:atim=0
>
> root at ubuntu:/home/eaton/vineeth/emily# iwconfig wlan0 essid channel 10b
> Error : unrecognised wireless request "10b"
>
>
> root at ubuntu:/home/eaton/vineeth/emily# dhclient wlan0
> Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3
> Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.
> All rights reserved.
> For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
>
> Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:18:4d:c3:19:52
> Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:18:4d:c3:19:52
> Sending on   Socket/fallback
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
> No DHCPOFFERS received.
> No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
>
> What could be the reason for not getting an ip?

I had the same problem, the problem was iwconfig was not setting the essid. I 
used the network settings in control panel to set the information and then it 
worked.

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David M.

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