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nazgoul

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From: Germany/Greece

Registered: 2006-08-09

Posts: 12

WLAN not recognized (D-Link G122)

Hi,
I'm having a problem connecting my D-Link G122 (C1) with my Windows XP (SP2) Laptop through a Wirless Connection.
It seems that the D-Link USB-Adapter works fine, the PowerON LED blinks when I enable wlan0 and the Data LED blinks when I make a scan.I instlled it according to the Instructions given in the Wiki and did some other Web searches, so I guess it should be fine in terms of "hardware".My PC is connected to the Internet through a normal router and since I want my Arch Box to be sth like a wireless router, meaning that all wirless devices connect to this PC and then are given Internet access I set the D-Link to "master".
Unfortunatelly my Laptop can't recognize my Lan.
I'm not sure what data to provide to help but I will provide you with anything you want.

Thank you in advance.

Here some output:

my ifconfig output

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:17:9A:B1:66:6A
          inet addr:192.168.1.88  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::217:9aff:feb1:666a/64 Scope:Link
          UP RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:1152 (1.1 Kb)
          Base address:0xe000

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-17-9A-B1-66-6A-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)
          Base address:0xe000

And here my iwconfig output:
(I just noticed the mode here is "managed" guess it was reseted when I plug in the device,but normaly it's set to master (also tried Ad-Hoc))

wmaster0  IEEE 802.11g  Frequency:2.412 GHz
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2346 B

wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:""
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2346 B
          Encryption key:off

after pluggin in the device dmesg gives:

usb 5-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
usb 5-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
wmaster0: Selected rate control algorithm 'simple'

harlekin

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2006-07-13

Posts: 408

Re: WLAN not recognized (D-Link G122)

my ifconfig output

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-17-9A-B1-66-6A-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)
          Base address:0xe000

I'm not quite sure but if the HWaddr looks like this it means that the device has not been successfully loaded. I guess theres something wrong with the modules. There HWaddr should look like the one of wlan0.

Besides the iwconfig output is kinda strange if I am right. :

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nazgoul

Member

From: Germany/Greece

Registered: 2006-08-09

Posts: 12

Re: WLAN not recognized (D-Link G122)

Thanks for your reply. I'm unsure myself about my HWaddr  but searching around a bit I came across this Thread and it seems he has a similar HWaddr
.
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB2/v … =9987#9987

Anybody else a clue what's going on ?

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