REPOST: Wireless Issues - Netgear WG511T

[David Vincent]

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Chris wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I need some help with my Netgear WG511T (V13) nic. Ubuntu sees it as
> ath0 (using restricted drivers) but yet it does not. Please see below
> the details of ath0 in both the output of ifconfig
> and /etc/network/interfaces.
> 
> The trouble I'm having is this: the nic "acts" like it should (meaning
> that both lights blink in a manor like they are connected to the AP)
> however it does not. 
> 
> As you can tell (for some reason) it's showing up in ifconfig with
> wifi0. If however, I try to config wifi0, it pretty much breaks.
> 
> Please don't tell me I purchased this nic and now it only works under
> Winders and FreeBSD (I assume it can work with Open and Net) but it
> sure does not under Fedora, Ubu, or Cent.
> 
> 
> root at thudpucker:/etc/network# ifconfig
> ath0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1B:2F:64:F4:C6  
>           inet addr:192.168.15.240  Bcast:192.168.15.255
> Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:61 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:11313 (11.0 KB)
> 
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0E:7F:73:86:73  
>           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:10 Base address:0xe000 
> 
> 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:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
>           RX bytes:1856 (1.8 KB)  TX bytes:1856 (1.8 KB)
> 
> wifi0     Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr
> 00-1B-2F-64-F4-C6-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 UP BROADCAST RUNNING
> MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1 RX packets:219521 errors:0 dropped:0
> overruns:0 frame:773315 TX packets:7350 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:199 
>           RX bytes:19064139 (18.1 MB)  TX bytes:348412 (340.2 KB)
>           Interrupt:11 
> 
> root at thudpucker:/etc/network# cat interfaces 
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> 
> 
> iface ath0 inet static
> address 192.168.15.240
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> gateway 192.168.15.1
> wireless-key 00000000000000000000000000
> wireless-essid example
> 
> auto ath0
> root at thudpucker:/etc/network# 

looks right to me.  ath0 has an ip address and a netmask.  what isn't
working?  i have atheros based cards which show up in the same manner -
just don't touch wifi0.  i use networkmanager to config the ath0 device
but using the network applet under System --> Administration works fine too.

can you ping 192.168.15.240?  how about 192.168.15.1 or 192.168.15.254
(your router might be at either end of your subnet)?

- -d
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