Netgear WG311 V3

Oblong_Cheese · 03-13-2007, 08:20 PM

This is a copy and paste from another forum... hoping to get more exposure here!

Thank-you in advance. :-)

Original thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=30785

Hi all, just installed Arch Linux on my dad's computer. Anyway, I'm having some problems with the wireless network card. I have installed ndiswrapper fine, installed the XP driver fine, got it all working just dandy, I can even scan for and detect my wireless network, the problem is that using iwconfig, I simply cannot get the wireless card to associate with the wireless network. Output of various commands below:

Code:

[owen@wayne ~]$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11FH  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.452 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Bit Rate:1 Mb/s   Sensitivity=-200 dBm  
          RTS thr=2346 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

[owen@wayne ~]$

Code:

[owen@wayne ~]$ iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0     Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:0F:B5:E3:59:4E
                    ESSID:"PISSOFF"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.452 GHz (Channel 9)
                    Quality:7/100  Signal level:-91 dBm  Noise level:-96 dBm
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                              24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                              12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
                    Extra:bcn_int=100
                    Extra:atim=0
          Cell 02 - Address: 00:0F:B5:E3:59:4E
                    ESSID:""
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.452 GHz (Channel 9)
                    Quality:4/100  Signal level:-93 dBm  Noise level:-96 dBm
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                              24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                              12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
                    Extra:bcn_int=100
                    Extra:atim=0

[owen@wayne ~]$

There appears to be a duplicate of my network here, they both have the same MAC address. And yes, "PISSOFF" is my SSID. :-P

Code:

[owen@wayne ~]$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:18:A8:3B:45  
          inet addr:192.168.1.106  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::230:18ff:fea8:3b45/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1636 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1196 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:2040205 (1.9 Mb)  TX bytes:141054 (137.7 Kb)
          Interrupt:18 Base address:0x8000 

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:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:6C:C1:DB:12  
          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:18 Memory:f6010000-f6020000 

[owen@wayne ~]$

(the above is AFTER I have typed ifconfig wlan0 up, before that the wlan0 device does not show in ifconfig output)

Issuing the appropriate iwconfig command returns nothing, no errors, no success messages, nothing:

Code:

[owen@wayne ~]$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid PISSOFF key 6E578E38669AA7603820E4184C channel 09
Password:
[owen@wayne ~]$

Does anyone have any ideas what's going on? And where should I look for output from iwconfig?

archtoad6 · 03-14-2007, 08:54 AM

Please don't double post -- read the rules.

david_ross · 03-17-2007, 07:00 AM

archtoad6, the double posting rules really only apply to multiple posts on this site. If someone is having a problem that can't be solved elsewhere then they are most welcome to post on LQ.

Oblong_Cheese, I've moved your thread to the wireless forum.

It looks like the cell you are picking up has an encryption key on - you will need to set it first (replace SOMEKEYHERE with your wep key):
iwconfig wlan0 key SOMEKEYHERE
iwconfig wlan0 essid PISSOFF

archtoad6 · 03-20-2007, 07:24 AM

Oops, sorry.

I didn't have the font size set large enough & didn't notice the target of the link.

lost1212 · 09-11-2007, 11:48 PM

Since you are getting the 802.11FH in your iwconfig more than likely your iee80211 modules are not installed. Im running wep and the modules that i needed were ieee80211, ieee80211_crypt, and ieee80211_crypt_wep then I did my ndiswrapper and that allowed me to connect properly.