[sclug] Netgear WG511 not playing ball

[Bob Franklin]

On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Alan Hawes wrote:

> 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


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