[Prism54-users] Problems configuring NETGEAR WG511 (PCMCIA)

[Ed Herr]

You are in Ad-Hoc mode by the looks of you iwconfig output... you need  
to be in Managed mode to associate with an AP.

Change mode to Managed by:

iwconfig eth0 mode managed

Change essid by:

iwconfig eth0 essid [Your Network Name] commit

If you are not seeing the wireless interface associate with the AP then  
try:

iwlist eth0 scan

it will show available wireless nets.

I have had problems changing wireless networks with previous versions  
of the driver, so I would advise getting the latest source and  
recompiling your driver. Changes seem to be hitting CVS about once  
every six hours or so and most of the changes over the last day or so  
seem to dramatically improve the wireless tools function (iwconfig,  
iwlist, etc).

Open Source is a wonderful thing, eh? Cheers to the Authors!

Auf Wiedersehen,
Ed


On 11/02/03 14:23:52, Swen S. wrote:
> The card loads perfect and runs but i can't configure for example
> ESSID,
> Nickname and Rate. The entrys for that options aren't in iwconfig!
> 
> Some informations:
> 
> [iwconfig:]
> 
> eth0      PRISM Duette  Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency=2.427GHz
>           Cell: 00:00:00:00:00:00  Bit Rate:0kb/s
>           RTS thr:2347 B   Fragment thr:2346 B
>           Encryption key:off
>           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
> 
> [ifconfig:]
> 
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:09:5B:84:59:5D
>           inet addr:192.168.1.2  Bcast:192.168.1.255
> Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:1260 (1.2 Kb)
>           Interrupt:10
> 
> [lspci]
> 
> 03:00.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor D-Links DWL-g650 A1
> (rev 01)
> 
> [lsmod]
> 
> prism54                34304  0
> firmware_class          7680  1 prism54
> 
> [/proc/interrupts]
> 
> 10:        345          XT-PIC  ohci1394, yenta, yenta, ehci_hcd,
> uhci_hcd,
> uhci_hcd, Intel 82801DB-ICH4, eth0
> 
> [dmesg]
> 
> Loaded prism54 driver, version 1.0.2.2
> PCI: Enabling device 0000:03:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
> eth0: resetting device...
> eth0: uploading firmware...
> eth0: islpci_open()
> eth0: firmware upload & reset successful!
> islpci_mgt_response(): flushed 17 entries
> 
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