[SOLVED] Netgear WG111v2

[mimil]

Hi,

I tried with no success to get a weird Dell wireless miniPCI card working.
Specs : Dell wireless 1500 draft 802.11n (Broadcom chipset)
I tried ndsiwrapper and the very last windows driver from Dell's website.
The card seems unsupported.

So I went out and bought a Netgear WG111v2.

I plugged it in and, after entering the SSID and WEP key for my router it worked just fine ... for a few hours.

Then, it just stopped working, and I haven't been able to get the connection back up.

I messed around a little, trying to figure the problem out by myself, uninstalled and reinstalled knetworkmanager . Now knetworkmanager won't even start with my session.

Anyhow, it shows two wireless devices : wmaster and wlan. Is that normal ?

I think there's also a problem with kwallet which is supposed to store the WEP key : it's not showing up anymore... And no wallet appears when I launch it (kdesu kwalletmanager). Is that related ?

I suppose I should setup the network from zero, but I don't know where to start. I'm not that familiar with Linux and Kubuntu is my first "Debian-based" distro.

Here's a few more system info (I skipped all irrelevant info)
#lsusb
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 062a:0001 Creative Labs Notebook Optical Mouse

#iwconfig
wmaster0 IEEE 802.11g Frequency:2.457 GHz
RTS thrff Fragment thr=2346 B

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"TECOM-AH4021-9AF337"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457 GHz Access Point: 00:03:C9:92:20:B0
RTS thrff Fragment thr=2346 B
Link Quality=45/64 Signal level=19/65
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

The PC is a laptop Dell Inspiron 640m, running Kubuntu Feisty Fawn, which I'm very happy with.

Please someone help me solve this problem. Thanx in advance.
E.Mie

[mimil]

Re: Netgear WG111v2

Correction for lsusb output (I didn't post info about the wifi device)

#lsusb
Bus 005 Device 008: ID 0846:6a00 NetGear, Inc. WG111 WiFi (v2)

And I had that foolish dream last night :P that my problem would catch someone's benevolent attention...

I'll post whatever information needed - but please help me !!!

Regards,
Emmanuel Mie

[mimil]

Re: Netgear WG111v2

Thanks to v04OV8f8's post ("knetworkmanager wireless") and a tutorial about KWifiManager found at http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/52/KWiFiManager.pdf, I was able to set up the wifi device !

I removed KNetworkManager, which seems to be the source of the problem
I installed KWifiManager, and configured it following the tuto, clicked "Activate" and there it goes !!

Hope this will help other users...

Bye