Netopia 3D REACH / 2wire 2701HG-B connect probs

agrestic · 01-22-2009, 06:40 PM

I got these devices from AT&T/BellSouth. On Ubuntu 8.10, I used ndiswrapper to install the driver (rt73) for the Netopia 3D Reach USB wireless card, model # TER/GUSB2-N. Then I installed rutilt v0.18 and went thru the hoops with it. Correct ESSID, passphrase, etc. The green light came on, but is solid. The orange light flashes rapidly.
The gateway (2wire 2701hg-b) doesn't recognize the Netopia device. I've triple-checked my input in both the nm-connection-editor and rutilt; both are spot-on. The ndis module is loaded, as lsmod shows:

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by
ndiswrapper           196380  0

...and iwconfig shows...

Code:

wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.412 GHz  
          Cell: 7E:43:8A:39:2B:C4   Bit Rate=11 Mb/s   Tx-Power:20 dBm   
          Sensitivity=-121 dBm  
          RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr=2346 B   
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

I've googled for this, and tried ubuntu forums. Found similar issues, but nothing i recognized as a solution. And if I missed it here on LQ, please point me to a relevant post. And boy, I mean please.

I've been doing this almost 4 hours. TIA!

[SOLVED] Okay...I rebooted and everything works fine. Sorry!