[sclug] Netgear WG511 not playing ball

[Alan Hawes]

> > I've used ndiswrapper, which works well. It detects the card, brings it 
> > up but when it tries to obtain an ip address from my router ( a Netgear 
> > DG834G ) it fails reporting that 'no IPv6 routers present'
> 
> I'm not sure about SuSE 10, but it's perfectly possible (and many Mac OS X 
> does by default) to have IPv4 and IPv6 addresses on the same interface; 
> they're effectively different protocols (so it's much like having an 
> AppleTalk and/or IPX address, too).
> 
> However, since you're not getting any connectivity, obviously things 
> aren't working.
> 
> I think it's more likely that things aren't working full-stop, rather than 
> IPv6 breaking the IPv4.  Although there might be some SuSE 10 weirdness, 
> there.
> 
> When you said you're assigning addresses and routes manually, I'm unsure 
> why you're getting 'unreachable' messages, if the interface is up, even if 
> it isn't working (for some reason).
> 
> I presume you have correctly entered the WEP/WPA keys?  I have seen some 
> wireless interfaces connect without them but just not get any data through 
> (presumably because the network is scrambled, but they don't report this 
> to you).
> 
>    - Bob



Hi Bob


Thanks for the reply. It's all working now!!

Actually you were right.

I just thought that I'd change the router security from wep to wpa and
all of a sudden the activity light on the card went mad.

I'm sure that the wep key was correct as kinternet reported a successful
connection when I used it earlier but it couldn't have been.

Anyway, thanks for the help.

I can now start playing my kids at network games!

Cheers

Alan


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