Hi,
I just bought a Netgear MA401 PCMCIA WLAN card, which is recognized by
my Pentium-MMX laptop with Gentoo Linux 1.4 automatically.
PCMCIA is switched off in the kernel and wlan support is on, but no
modules are compiled - instead, I've installed pcmcia-cs.
I'm using WEP-128 encryption.
And I can ping myself (192.168.116.2), but I can't ping anything else
(not even the gateway) - I always get "Destionation Host Unreachable".
Power management is disabled in the BIOS.
Software output (I've changed the key and the ESSID for security's
sake):
ifconfig:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:5B:25:E0:CD
inet addr:192.168.116.2 Bcast:192.168.116.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
iwconfig:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"my_essid" Nickname:"laptop"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point:
00:60:B3:7A:63:4B
Bit Rate:2Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr

ff Fragment thr

ff
Encryption key:XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX Security
mode:restricted
Power Management

ff
Link Quality:30/92 Signal level:-91 dBm Noise level:-145
dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
route:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref
Use Iface
192.168.116.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0
0 eth0
loopback localhost 255.0.0.0 UG 0 0
0 lo
default 192.168.116.1 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0
0 eth0
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Marvin