netgear USB wg111tForum: Networking Topic: netgear USB wg111t started by: steamfitter Posted by steamfitter on Feb. 21 2006,22:11
Ok so i have never posted anything on any forum before so, if i do anything wrong well sorry, my spellin is also terrible, sorry again.Right I would like to say DSL is my fav linux, also the first one i ever tryed, think its great really, I dont consider myself a neewbie, but i aint no programing wizz, I have been trying to get a netgear usb wirless dongle thingy going on DSL, with no sucsess at all, i have tryed ndiswrapper, the built in prism2, the madwifi extension, and got no where, I use a hard drive install, with current version ,and previous version, but no difference, i have also tryed gettin said device to work using other linux's (Puppy,Feather,Knoppix,Slax), also with no succses, can anybody help?. just for a start can someone tell me if the present versions of madwifi ext and ndiswrapper work with USB?, when i tryed madwifi it complained that the kernel version was different, ndiswrapper just says hardware not present, along time ago i got a wifi card working with DSL, it was so fast on the net!, so i can sort out what needs to be done with ndiswrapper when it see's something but i have never go that far !, just to rub things in if i try ndiswrapper in Feather it says driver present hardware present, but everything else is like DSL, can't iwconfig anything, cant see wlan0, ath0, anything !!, said usb dongle thing is athos chipset, tryed loads of drivers, still nothing, from what I have read googleing, and trolling trhough forums, alot of people my be in the same positon. Posted by cbagger01 on Feb. 22 2006,17:11
USB wireless dongles are troublesome in Linux. Many of them even misbehave with NDISWRAPPER.As for the madwifi driver problem, you need to make sure that your DSL version is matched up with the driver file version. For example, a madwifi extension was build for DSL version 2.0 and 2.1 It doesn't work with DSL 1.5 or 2.2 Finally, for more ndiswrapper device info, look here: < http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List > Posted by steamfitter on Feb. 22 2006,19:54
Ok thanks for the info on madwifi cbagger01, I will go get an older version of DSL, and give it a try, I keep looking for info on this prob, but all i seem to find is other people in same position, if I can't get it sorted soon gunna get a different dongle, but i think all usb wifi is difficult, i didi get a dlink one going on feather a while back but don't have that one now, never got it to work on DSl though, OK thanks again will report back with any news , Later
Posted by steamfitter on Feb. 22 2006,22:41
OK so tryed DSL ver 2.1, installing madwifi went much better, everything looked promising, but I still cant pump,ifconfig,iwconfig,modprobe,wlanconfig,up, or anything they all say there is no device, or complain in similar way, I have cut some bits of info out of stats.txt, maybe it is obvious to some one, it seems like its very close to working, its just beyond me !.OH one last thing I have the USBview ext, and it allways shows the wg111t in red, but it knows lots about it, Feather does the same, maybe this is a USB problem, wish I knew , good luck everyone in same position. wlan: 0.8.4.2 (Atheros/multi-bss) wlan: mac acl policy registered ath_hal: 0.9.16.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, DFS) ath_rate_sample: 1.2 ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (Atheros/multi-bss) usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver hub.c: new USB device 00:09.0-2, assigned address 2 usbdevfs: remount parameter error usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x1385/0x4251) is not claimed by any active driver. Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled apm 9736 1 (autoclean) ath_pci 67036 0 (unused) ath_rate_sample 8076 0 [ath_pci] ath_hal 181840 0 [ath_pci ath_rate_sample] wlan_xauth 560 0 (unused) wlan_wep 4160 0 (unused) wlan_tkip 9120 0 (unused) wlan_scan_sta 8848 0 (unused) wlan_scan_ap 2416 0 (unused) wlan_ccmp 5312 0 (unused) wlan_acl 2464 0 (unused) wlan 134008 0 [ath_pci ath_rate_sample wlan_xauth wlan_wep wlan_tkip wlan_scan_sta wlan_scan_ap wlan_ccmp wlan_acl] /proc/bus/usb on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw,devmode=0666) (only USB dev pluged in) contents of /opt/madwifi_setup.sh #!/bin/bash insmod /lib/modules/2.4.31/net/wlan.o insmod /lib/modules/2.4.31/net/wlan_acl.o insmod /lib/modules/2.4.31/net/wlan_ccmp.o insmod /lib/modules/2.4.31/net/wlan_scan_ap.o insmod /lib/modules/2.4.31/net/wlan_scan_sta.o insmod /lib/modules/2.4.31/net/wlan_tkip.o insmod /lib/modules/2.4.31/net/wlan_wep.o insmod /lib/modules/2.4.31/net/wlan_xauth.o insmod /lib/modules/2.4.31/net/ath_hal.o insmod /lib/modules/2.4.31/net/ath_rate_sample.o insmod /lib/modules/2.4.31/net/ath_pci.o /usr/local/bin/wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta Posted by doobit on Feb. 22 2006,23:11
Looks like the modules are loaded. did you try just adding ath0 and your channel info in the iwconfig?if the key lights up do iwlist ath0 scan to see if it's picking up cells. Posted by steamfitter on Feb. 23 2006,01:36
Ok so just did fresh install of ver 2.1, and got few more bits of info, i did try iwconfig from the control panel as I think you meant doobit, but it just said no connection thanks for the input though, also tryed ver 2.1 with ndiswrapper and got driver loaded hardware present, with one driver and just driver present with the other, (all info says load both of um), which was better than i had before, but nothing else, well gunna crash out later.Oh I have never seen the LED light up in any linux yet, its dead all the time, thanks later dsl@box:~$ sudo /opt/madwifi_setup.sh Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.31/net/ath_hal.o will taint the kernel: non-GPL license - Proprietary See < http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted > for information about tainted modules Module ath_hal loaded, with warnings wlanconfig: ioctl: No such device dsl@box:~$ dsl@box:~$ iwconfig ath0 ath0 No such device dsl@box:~$ iwlist ath0 scan ath0 Failed to read scan data : No such device Posted by steamfitter on Feb. 25 2006,18:37
Well i have gone back to ndswrapper, can get hardware pesent,dreiver present, but that still is all i get, no sign of any new network device, and i still havn't seen the light come on in linux, I have done alot more googling, many people are sying that for early versions of ndiswrapper, you need to run "load_fw_ar5523 for loading ar5523 firmware file for Atheros USB devices", does any one know aythng more about this, good luck later
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