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Topic: Setting up a Netgear WG511T wifi card., Problems with ndiswrapper.

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tempestuous Offline

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Posted: Jan. 23 2006,07:15

Before you use the iwconfig gui as Robert suggested, first try things from the commandline similar to what Max did in that other post -

/opt/madwifi_setup.sh
ifconfig ath0 up ## (this is an extra step that sometimes helps)
iwconfig ath0 essid MY_ESSID key 1234567890 mode managed
pump -i ath0

If still no success, try to "reset" your card prior to wifi setup, like this -

cardctl eject
cardctl insert

... or another more thorough reset is to restart cardmgr like this -

read PID </var/run/cardmgr.pid
kill $PID
## wait a few seconds, then
cardmgr

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Posted: Jan. 23 2006,12:01

Okay, this is what is happening:

1. Doing the commands without the reset does nothing;

2. The cardctl suggestion doesn't work either;

3. The PID suggestion didn't either.

In each instance, the problem is with pump -i ath0 - the command fails with the error 'operation failed'. Very helpful... The wireless card lights flicker and alternate.

I noticed that when I typed 'ps aux', there was a process 'pump -i eth0' running, so I killed this, but to no avail. I then removed the ethernet card and rebooted and tried again. Still no luck; however. when I looked at the processes, 'pump -i ath0' was listed, despite the 'operation failed' error message.

As I type this, the lights on the wireless card are still flickering, and 'iwconfig' shows that there is a signal strength and link quality, but I cannot connect (pinging the wireless hub doesn't work, for instance). 'ifconfig' states that no packets have been sent or received (hardly surprising) and that I don't have an IP address (again, not surprising).

It seems as if progress is being made, but still not quite enough ;)

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Posted: Jan. 23 2006,12:34

Success!!! Of a type, that is.

I've narrowed the problem down - it's in the assigned of an address using 'pump'. If I set the wireless hub to accept the laptop with a pre-determined IP address, and then set it using 'ifconfig', I can ping the hub and the other machines on the LAN, and now that I've configured the nameserver and gateway, I can access the outside world!

I suspect that there is a problem with the version of 'pump' that's included - I found several references to this using Google, hence my decision to set a pre-determined IP address.

I'm writing this using my Libretto, BTW

Tempestuous - thank you SO much for your help so far. Without it, I wouldn't be at this stage. If you're ever in Adelaide, I owe you a beer (or if I'm ever where you live).

Now comes the fun (easy?) part - getting all of this done automatically

EDIT: after getting the card working, this was the easy part. I must be learning something ;) Now for the niceties, such as the battery status.

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Posted: Jan. 29 2006,05:50

Since pump is being troublesome, it would be feasible to compile and use an alternative dhcp client daemon. See
http://freshmeat.net/projects/dhcpcd/

But now that DSL has just reverted to the 2.4.26 kernel, pump may work fine in the new DSL 2.2.