Attached is a report of the setup of a USB stick Netgear WG111 Wireless. MarvS
Below is the report of the setup of a USB stick Netgear WG111 Wireless. Linux native drivers are not available, so ndiswrapper tools had to be used: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/ The system is under Ubuntu Feisty Fawn kernel 2.6.20-16-generic, running an older Avertec 3200 laptop. Cogent software packages installed are: wireless-tools - Tools for manipulating Linux Wireless Extensions ndiswrapper-common - Common scripts required to use the utilities for ndiswrapper ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 - Userspace utilities for the ndiswrapper linux kernel module For details on the cogent commands read: $ man ndiswrapper and $ ndiswrapper --help and similarly get information on commands iwlist and iwconfig Kernel messages were watched with: $ sudo tail -f /var/log/messages & with the & backgrounding the tail proces, so that the command prompt was available. Inserting the USB stick resulted in messages [ 409.440000] usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 [ 409.584000] usb 4-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 410.080000] p54: LM86 firmware [ 410.752000] wiphy0: hwaddr 00:0f:b5:de:67:80, isl3887 and there is reported also: $ lsusb Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0846:4240 NetGear, Inc. WG111 WiFi (v2) Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 and a more verbose output can then be obtained with: ~$ lsusb -s 004:002 -v which includes idVendor 0x0846 NetGear, Inc. idProduct 0x4240 WG111 WiFi (v2) From the Microsoft support package I had obtained: bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys Within the folder containing them they were installed into Linux with: $ sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf There results new files: /etc/ndiswrapper `-- bcmwl5 |-- 14E4:4320.5.conf -> /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4320:1057:7010.5.conf |-- 14E4:4320:1057:7010.5.conf |-- 14E4:4320:1057:7025.5.conf |-- bcmwl5.inf `-- bcmwl5.sys After which a report can be obtainer $ ndiswrapper -l bcmwl5 : driver installed Note that the smae name ndiswrapper is used for both an executable and the distinct module ndiswrapper.ko, which was loaded with: $ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper Password: marv@marvlap:~$ [ 410.752000] usbcore: registered new interface driver prism54usb [ 1138.860000] ndiswrapper version 1.38 loaded (preempt=no,smp=yes) and there were new blocks reported by $ ifconfig wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:B5:DE:67:80 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:102 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:13710 (13.3 KiB) wlan0:ava Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:B5:DE:67:80 inet addr:169.254.8.48 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-0F-B5-DE-67-80-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) though the role of the wlan0:ava and wmaster0 are obscure. My home wireless receiver info was entered: $ sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid OSH81 enc Station_Encryption_Code Only after which was there a successful scan: ~$ sudo iwlist wlan0 scan wlan0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 00:18:01:E5:51:A5 ESSID:"OSH81" Mode:Master Frequency:2.462 GHz Signal level=75/100 Encryption key:on Extra:tsf=000000146debf096 Cell 02 - Address: 00:18:01:E2:63:79 ESSID:"DRUJ8" Mode:Master Frequency:2.462 GHz Signal level=71/100 Encryption key:on Extra:tsf=00000016a703bdf3 ~$ iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. wmaster0 IEEE 802.11g Frequency:2.462 GHz RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"OSH81" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:18:01:E5:51:A5 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B Link Signal level=32/100 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Involved modules are displayed with: $ lsmod | grep usb prism54usb 16896 0 prism54common 12288 1 prism54usb mac80211 175364 3 prism54usb,prism54common,rc80211_simple usbcore 134280 5 prism54usb,ndiswrapper,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd and removal of prism54usb does kill functionality, for reasons obscure. Connection to the wireless station was done with: ~$ sudo dhclient wlan0 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4 Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801 wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801 Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:0f:b5:de:67:80 Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:0f:b5:de:67:80 Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.1 DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1 bound to 192.168.1.4 -- renewal in 36571 seconds. ~$ ping -c 2 novell.com PING novell.com (130.57.5.70) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from redirector.novell.com (130.57.5.70): icmp_seq=1 ttl=47 time=101 ms 64 bytes from redirector.novell.com (130.57.5.70): icmp_seq=2 ttl=47 time=93.5 ms ---------- confirmed that DNS (Domain Name Services) were working. If there is an Internet connection without DNS, there would still work: $ ping -c 2 130.57.5.70 PING 130.57.5.70 (130.57.5.70) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 130.57.5.70: icmp_seq=2 ttl=47 time=92.6 ms 64 bytes from 130.57.5.70: icmp_seq=1 ttl=47 time=5532 ms --- 130.57.5.70 ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1009ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 92.634/2812.651/5532.668/2720.017 ms, pipe 2 and I am thus sending this record. MarvS 2007June11
