configuring a wg111v2 usb to connect to a netgear dg834g...?

[DanBallance]

hi there,

if anyone could spare a little time to help me out here i'd be extremely greatful.

i have a wg111v2 usb dongle and i seem to have managed to successfully extract a windows driver and run it with ndis wrapper.

i am now trying to get this to connect to my netgear dg834g. i have set network essid and so forth and i seem to be able to 'half connect', but when i run the knoppix wifi gui (sorry, i forget the name, i'm back in windows now) i do not actually connect to an access point, although it detects that the wireless network is there if i scan and also that i have 100 for signal strength. the picture i have is a laptop with a blue card.

i think it may be a problem with the ip settings i am giving it when i run netcardconfig. here are the settings of my router currently:


Router Status

Account Name
Firmware Version V1.05.00

ADSL Port
MAC Address 00:0f:b5:b7:ed:05
IP Address 82.71.28.238
DHCP PPPoA
IP Subnet Mask 255.255.255.255
Gateway IP Address 62.3.83.5
Domain Name Server 212.23.6.35
212.23.3.11

LAN Port
MAC Address 00:0f:b5:b7:ed:04
IP Address 192.168.0.1
DHCP On
IP Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0

Modem
ADSL Firmware Version 1.00.09.00
Modem Status Connected
DownStream Connection Speed 1152 kbps
UpStream Connection Speed 288 kbps
VPI 0
VCI 38

Wireless Port
Name (SSID) NETGEAR
Region Europe
Channel 11
Wireless AP enable
Broadcast Name enable


i can ping 127.0.0.1 but if i try to ping the router (192.168.0.1) i get all time outs.

can anybody offer me some advice of what to do next? i am at the end of my second full day of trying to get this install up and running and although i have made progress and am starting to really like the linux way of doing things, i am pretty much stuck now :(

dan

[DanBallance]

okay, i've made a little prgress i think. i now run these commands when i login:

su
modprobe ndiswrapper
iwconfig wlan0 essid xxxxxx
iwconfig wlan0 mode managed
iwconfig wlan0 key open xxxxxxxxxx
if config wlan0 up
ifup -a


i have edited my /etc/network/conference file to:

auto lo wlan0
iface lo inet loopback
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
address 192.168.0.2
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.0.1

after doing all of this i can ping 127.0.0.1 and 192.168.0.0.2 (both local to my machine) - but if i try to ping the router, on 192.168.0.1 nothing happens and i have to <control-c> to get out...

if anyone could cast an eye over this and help me out i'd be very greatful and i will hang around here and try to help others out once i am up and running,

many thanks,

dan