REPOST: Wireless Issues - Netgear WG511T
David Vincent
dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca
Sun Mar 30 15:33:43 UTC 2008
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Chris wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I need some help with my Netgear WG511T (V13) nic. Ubuntu sees it as
> ath0 (using restricted drivers) but yet it does not. Please see below
> the details of ath0 in both the output of ifconfig
> and /etc/network/interfaces.
>
> The trouble I'm having is this: the nic "acts" like it should (meaning
> that both lights blink in a manor like they are connected to the AP)
> however it does not.
>
> As you can tell (for some reason) it's showing up in ifconfig with
> wifi0. If however, I try to config wifi0, it pretty much breaks.
>
> Please don't tell me I purchased this nic and now it only works under
> Winders and FreeBSD (I assume it can work with Open and Net) but it
> sure does not under Fedora, Ubu, or Cent.
>
>
> root at thudpucker:/etc/network# ifconfig
> ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:2F:64:F4:C6
> inet addr:192.168.15.240 Bcast:192.168.15.255
> Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:61 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:11313 (11.0 KB)
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:7F:73:86:73
> UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe000
>
> 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:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:1856 (1.8 KB) TX bytes:1856 (1.8 KB)
>
> wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
> 00-1B-2F-64-F4-C6-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 UP BROADCAST RUNNING
> MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:219521 errors:0 dropped:0
> overruns:0 frame:773315 TX packets:7350 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
> RX bytes:19064139 (18.1 MB) TX bytes:348412 (340.2 KB)
> Interrupt:11
>
> root at thudpucker:/etc/network# cat interfaces
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
>
> iface ath0 inet static
> address 192.168.15.240
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> gateway 192.168.15.1
> wireless-key 00000000000000000000000000
> wireless-essid example
>
> auto ath0
> root at thudpucker:/etc/network#
looks right to me. ath0 has an ip address and a netmask. what isn't
working? i have atheros based cards which show up in the same manner -
just don't touch wifi0. i use networkmanager to config the ath0 device
but using the network applet under System --> Administration works fine too.
can you ping 192.168.15.240? how about 192.168.15.1 or 192.168.15.254
(your router might be at either end of your subnet)?
- -d
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