Re: Trouble getting Netgear MA101 USB adapter working

On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 03:30:50PM -0400, Stefan Bidigaray wrote:
> I'm still having trouble.  For some reason it's not getting a hold of
> the signal.  I have my /etc/network.interfaces file set up like this:

Maybe just a typo, but that should be /etc/network/interfaces.

> # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
> # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
> 
> # The loopback network interface
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> 
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
> 
> # This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
> # They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.
> mapping hotplug
>         script grep
>         map wlan0
> 
> # The primary network interface
> auto wlan0
> iface wlan0 inet dhcp
>         wireless_essid "Wireless Connection"
>         wireless_nick Ubuntu
>         wireless_channel 1
>         wireless_mode Ad-Hoc
>         wireless_rts 2304
>         wireless_frag 2304

I think all of the wireless functions should be of the form:

  wireless-<function>

And not:

  wireless_<function>

See the wireless(7) man page.

One other small mistake I've made in the past is with ESSIDs
that have spaces. I thought it should be:

  wireless-essid "foo bar"

Rather, unless the essid does in fact have quotes then this provides
the wrong outcome. In other words, in my case it should've been:

  wireless-essid foo bar

Check the output of iwconfig wlan0 to see what the essid is
set to.

And you're sure that the AP is not requiring WEP?

-- 
Steve Feehan