Re: Netgear WPN311 Wireless G problems
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 00:36:58 -0400, Grok Mogger wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 11:37:03 -0400, Grok Mogger wrote:
> > [...]
> >> Hey everyone, thanks a lot for the advice! I ended up getting a Netgear
> >> WPN311 Wireless G PCI card. Now I'm just trying to get the darn thing
> >> working. Right now, I'm actually using the desktop install of Ubuntu
> >> 6.10, Edgy Eft. I've followed the advice here:
> >> http://www.ubuntugeek.com/enable-wpa-wireless-access-point-in-ubuntu.html
[...]
> >> In Device Manager the card is identified as a "AR5212 802.11abg NIC" and
> >> it has two entries underneath it, a "WLAN Interface" and an "Unknown
> >> Device".
> >>
> >> I figure whatever I've messed up, I've done such a fantastic job of it
> >> that I'll just have to figure out for myself, but does anything jump out
> >> at anyone right away?
> > Step 1 is: Run "iwconfig" as root and post the output here.
> > Further steps depend on the outcome of step 1.
>
> Here's the output of "sudo iwconfig".
[...]
> ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
> Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
> Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:18 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
> Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> Encryption key:off
> Power Management:off
> Link Quality=0/94 Signal level=-95 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
[...]
OK, so at least ath0 is recognised as an interface with wireless
extensions. The main problem is now that you seem to be unable to
associate with any access point ("Access Point:" should show the MAC
address of an access point instead of "Not-Associated").
This might simply mean that there are no access points close enough to
you, or that they are all using WPA to restrict access.
You can scan for access points by running:
sudo iwlist ath0 scan
Check if this command works and if the output makes sense. You should
also verify that you are at least able to change settings, for example
sudo iwconfig ath0 essid "GrokMogger"
should lead to "GrokMogger" being displayed as the ESSID if you run
"iwconfig ath0" again. If you get any error messages during these
operations you should post them here.
Since we can at present not completely rule out that there is a problem
with hardware/drivers, you should also run
dmesg | egrep 'ath0|madwifi'
right after boot and post the output here. (The WPN311 should be well
supported, but it cannot hurt to check.)
--
Regards,
Florian
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