NetGear MA401: "Destination Host Unreachable"

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:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX Security
mode:restricted
Power Management:off
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

>And I can ping myself (192.168.116.2), but I can't ping anything else[color=blue]
>(not even the gateway) - I always get "Destionation Host Unreachable".[/color]

What is in /var/log/messages? (Either when you boot up with the card
installed, or when you push the card in.)

Marvin Massih wrote:[color=blue]
>
> I just bought a Netgear MA401 PCMCIA WLAN card, which is recognized by
> my Pentium-MMX laptop with Gentoo Linux 1.4 automatically.[/color]

Netgear MA401 works, I'm using one!

In the wlan-driver scence much has happened recently, what is
the kernel in Gentoo 1.4? I advice 2.4.20 or newer.

[color=blue]
> PCMCIA is switched off in the kernel and wlan support is on, but no
> modules are compiled - instead, I've installed pcmcia-cs.[/color]

Why? In other workds, you plan to keep the card always plugged in and
the driver to be loaded always?

In the "usual" hot-plug system, you monitor /var/log/messages and
insert the card. The famous "double-gong" will indicate whether
the card is recognizes. You can check the modules, find the new
interface and try first manually giving an address with ipconfig.

In you setup, I don't think my information would help much.

I work in 3 places, all provide DHCP, some via WLAN some cable.
The laptop works true to "plug'n play" !

Visvanath.

Marvin Massih <m.massih@web.de> wrote:
[color=blue]
> 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.[/color]

I don't recommend this configuration. Or, at least, I would have
recommended trying the "standard" kernel PCMCIA setup, with the
orinoco_cs driver, first.
[color=blue]
> 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[/color]

No packets sent. Check your system log for error messages.

-- Dave