[Fwd: Re: [plug] ma111 usb wireless adapter]

[darren]

Hi Craig  yes you are right the ma111 is a  wireless usb ethernet
adapter from netgear ,next time ill be more detailed with my question .i
typed the iwconfig wlan0 command and it shows a different essid not the
essid of my lan ,which is one of my problems i have relized.signal
strength looks good and there is no mac address for the ap  .i can
connect by using sudo wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_autojoin
ssid=<thecorrectssid> authtype=opensystem then dhclient wlan0 and it
gets its ip and everything is working ok,but when i boot the ssid is the
original i had entered and of course i then have no connection. which
file needs to be edited to correct this problem?
Thanks Darren



On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 13:08 +0800, Darren wrote:
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------  
>                           Subject: 
> Re: [plug] ma111 usb wireless
> adapter
>                              Date: 
> Sat, 29 Jan 2005 17:23:46 +0800
>                              From: 
> Craig Ringer
> <craig at postnewspapers.com.au>
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> plug at plug.linux.org.au
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> 
> 
> Hi Darren
> 
> On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 00:47 +0800, Darren wrote:
> > Howdy list I am trying to get this ma111
> 
> I'm not sure exactly what an MA111 is. I'm going to reply based on the
> assumption that you mean this:
> http://www.netgear.com.au/products/prod_details.asp?prodID=173&view=
> but it'd be good if you could give more details about what you're trying
> to use in future.
> 
> > to work on my laptop for a 
> > couple of weeks now, and now its time to seek help. It's running Ubuntu 
> > 4.10. The laptop has an internal Intel LAN connection which seems to 
> > work fine. I have a e-smith DHCP server on the network that dishes out 
> > IPs. Running ifconfig I can see wlan0 but it has no IP address.
> > Running dhclient wlan0 it just times out. The ma111 works no probs with 
> > m$ so the hardware must be ok. I have the linux-wlanctl-ng package 
> > installed and have followed different instructions on the net to no 
> > avail. I must be close to solving this as wlan0 is visible. Running 
> > lsmod shows the prism2 module loaded. Any help and ideas would be 
> > greatly appreciated. Thanks.
> 
> I'm not familar with the specific hardware you're trying to use, or the
> PRISM chipsets in general, so I don't know how much help I can be.
> 
> In general, once I have the interface visible I'll try a DHCP request.
> If, as you describe, that fails, I tend to look at the iwconfig output
> for the device and see if it has actually found a network. I'm not sure
> if the device you're using supports the iwconfig interface, but if it
> does try:
> 	iwconfig wlan0
> and check if (a) it's found the ESSID of your LAN, (b) signal strength
> looks reasonable, and (c) it shows the MAC address of your access point.
> 
> If the iwconfig output looks OK, try bringing the interface up manually
> and seeing if you can ping anything:
> 	/sbin/ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.2 up
> (where "192.168.0.2" is a free IP within the range you use on your LAN).
> Try pinging the gateway, see if you get any response.
> 
> If everything looks like it should be working, but it doesn't look like
> pings are getting through, I tend to fire up ethereal on both sides (the
> gateway and the client) and do some testing to see where, exactly, the
> communication problem is. Unless you're familiar with ethereal and the
> way the network operates that may not do you much good. Perhaps drop in
> to the next workshop?
> 
> -- 
> Craig Ringer
> 
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