[plug] wireless card problem

[garry]

Caleb Duggan wrote:

> does anyone know howto get the netgear WG511T wireless card to connect 
> to  a WGT624 wireless router with 128bit WEP encryption?
>
> ive read several random pages ive found with google where it says 
> howto  get it to work...but none of them will work for me.......
>
> when i type "iwconfig ath0", im getting the following
>
> IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"NETGEAT"
> Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 00:09:5B:EE:89:8E
> Bit Rate:36Mb/s Tx-Power:50 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
> Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> Power Management:off
> Link Quality=45/94 Signal level=-50 dBm Noise level=-96 dBm
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
>
> ive tried using the graphical utility in ubuntu to put in the WEP  
> key........but after putting it in, i still cant ping anything on the  
> network..........i also tryed doing "iwconfig ath0 key  
> XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XX"..and after doing that, im 
> still  unable to ping anything on the network
>
Is the channel correct?
Is the default route correct?
Are the card and AP known to be good? Matching protocols?

Garry