[olug] Wireless natworking with Netgear router

[Thomas D. Williamson]

I have the same card. It requires a "wrapper" making use of Windows drivers, as
Netgear does not provide information to open source or create a Linux
compatiable driver itself. I brought this up as a topic for a OLUG meeting as I
am not sure which drivers are to be used, these seem to be based on XP, while I
have 2000 drivers. I think they can be taken from the install disk.

I would like a bit of a demo to walk through the process at some point.

Tom Williamson

Quoting Don Kauffman <dekauff at cox.net>:

> Hi all.
>
> I'm branching out of my comfort zone again and trying to set up a home
> wireless network. The problem that I'm experiencing is trying to get my
> wireless access card to recognize the fact that there is a wireless net
> work. So far it doesn't seem to be picking up any signal what so ever.
> (The card works fine in another setting so I don't think there's a
> problem with the card -- it's probably the user!!) The router is showing
> that it is putting out a signal so it's probably a misconfiguration
> issue. My problem is trying to figure out where the misconfiguration
> is.
>
> Here's the setup:
>
> Netgear WGR614 v6 54 Mbps router
> Netgear wireless PCMCIA WG511T 108 Mbps card in a laptop running Ubuntu
> 5.10
>
> I'm wired to the router with a desktop that is also running Ubuntu 5.10
> (Breezy). I can get to the basic settings web page on the router with
> firefox and change settings.
>
> I've made sure that the SSID's are the same for both and was trying to
> experiment with the WEP settings which is now disabled in both.
>
> If I don't get it set up before Tuesday evening Jay may get a visit from
> me!!
>
> Thanks for any assistance!
>
> Don K.
>
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