On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Matthew Paulosky wrote: > I have a Linksys WRT54G router and a Netgear WG311 pci card. This setup > works very well with XP Pro but I am having problems in my Fedora Core 1 > kernel-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl system. I installed the > kernel-madwifi-0.0.20040107-1_2.4.22_1.2174.nptl.rhfc1.i686.rpm from the > WIKI site. When the interface is up I can ping the card but not the Router. > Also I am unable to access the Router through the web interface. I know > that it will work because I got it to work once but don't have a clue how > and don't know what I did to loose it. Can anyone point me in the right > direction to get this up and running? <snip> > > ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:5B:96:4F:B7 > inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 I guess DHCP worked fine - and the ip address is allocated.. > RX packets:725262 errors:370102 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:370091 > TX packets:93 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:199 > RX bytes:61577874 (58.7 Mb) TX bytes:6933 (6.7 Kb) > Interrupt:3 Memory:fad8f000-fad9f000 Looks like there are a lot of RX errors.. > [root@localhost root]# iwconfig gives this information: > ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"home4" Nickname:"localhost.localdomain" > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 00:0C:41:BB:64:DD > Bit Rate=54Mb/s Tx-Power:off Sensitivity=0/3 > Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off > Encryption key:xxx-xxxx-xx Security mode:open > Power Management:off > Link Quality:45/94 Signal level:-50 dBm Noise level:-95 dBm > Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 > Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 This looks good.. Esp the link quality. Perhaps the 802.11g mode doesn't work well with the January snapshot? You could try using 802.11b mode iwpriv ath0 mode 2 Satish
