Re: Trouble getting Netgear MA101 USB adapter working

Stefan Bidigaray <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:35:38 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.at76c503a.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks, that actually worked out pretty good for me.  I'm having
another problem now though, and it's mostly because I'm not too
familiar with this type of configuration.  I can't get an IP from my
router.  It's set up for DHCP and I'm not sure how to get that going
under any Linux.  After getting the wlan0 interface, I did:

# iwconfig wlan0 channel 1 mode ad-hoc essid "Wireless Connection"
# iwconfig wlan0 rts 2304 frag 2304     (cause that's what my RTS and
Fragmentation threshold is set to on the router)

it did that just fine, but after that I'm completely lost.  I have no
idea what to do next.  I don't think doing "# ifconfig wlan0 IP-addr"
is going to help since the router is set for DHCP-only.  I did try
setting a static IP for this computer, using the correct MAC addr, but
when I did did "# ifconfig wlan0 IP-addr" it wouldn't ping anything. 
I tried running  "# dhclient" but that didn't do much.

I hope I explained that well.