Netgear NET111v2, ndiswrapper and no signs of life?oO

[daniel.dzc]

Hi, I need to run my wlan under knoppix to install gentoo. I am using netgear net111v2 wireless usb card. I have wrapped windows drivers for that card, and everything seems to work ok except...the card! When i try to scan for networks, it dosen't find any. when i try to configure it to connect to my network, it dosen't respond to some of the commands. Have a look at this:

root@Knoppix:~# ndiswrapper -i /mnt/hda5/ndiswrapper/net111v2.inf
installing net111v2 ...
root@Knoppix:~# ndiswrapper -l
net111v2 : driver installed device (0846:6A00) present
root@Knoppix:~# lsusb
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 03f0:c102 Hewlett-Packard
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0846:6a00 NetGear, Inc. WG111 WiFi (v2)
root@Knoppix:~# modprobe ndiswrapper
root@Knoppix:~# dmesg
........<you don’t need what was here>.....................
ndiswrapper version 1.32 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=yes)usb 1-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address2
ndiswrapper: driver net111v2 (NETGEAR Inc.,03/27/2006,5.1213.06.0327) loaded
ndiswrapper (ExAllocatePoolWithTag:1009): Windows driver allocating 299304 bytes in interrupt context: 0, 0, 0
wlan0: ethernet device 00:14:6c:f0:72:51 using NDIS driver: net111v2, version: 0x1, NDIS version: 0x500, vendor: 'Realtek RTL8187 Wireless LAN USB NIC', 0846:6A00.F.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
root@Knoppix:~# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSIDff/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
RTS thr=2432 B Fragment thr=2432 B
Power Managementff
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
root@Knoppix:~# iwconfig wlan0 essid abbey624
root@Knoppix:~# iwconfig wlan0 key s:tylkojajeznam
root@Knoppix:~# ifconfig wlan0 up
root@Knoppix:~# ifconfig
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:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:900 (900.0 b) TX bytes:900 (900.0 b)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:6C:F0:72:51 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

Any ideas what else i can do? Or mybe You need some additional informations? Thanks for any help. Daniel.[/b]

[chip.ling]

root@Knoppix:~# iwconfig wlan0 essid abbey624

Try to change this line to

# iwconfig wlan0 essid abbey624 channel ?

replace the question mark with the right channel number your network is using. I don't see you set it up on your list. After this command, simply do

# iwconfig

to check the result. You should be able to see your ESSID is set and the ACCESS POINT on the second line is established with a valid ID.

Rgds,
Chip