Re: Trouble getting Netgear MA101 USB adapter working

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 12:35:38PM -0400, Stefan Bidigaray wrote:
> 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.

If I recall you're using Ubuntu, correct? Then add a stanza like
this to the /etc/network/interfaces file:

iface wlan0 inet dhcp
	wireless-essid Wireless Connection
	wireless-channel 1
	wireless-mode adhoc
	wireless-rts 2304
	wireless-frag 2304

Then do:

  # ifup wlan0

If you want the interface brought up automatically at boot, add a line
to /etc/network/interfaces:

auto wlan0

-- 
Steve Feehan