NetGear MA521 under SuSE Linux 8.2

Hi,

I am trying to configure NetGear MA521 under SuSE Linux 8.2 running 2.4.20 .

The script I use is as follows:
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insmod -f rtl8180_24x.o

/usr/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para networktype=infra
/usr/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para ssid2scan="SreeniHome"
/usr/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para channel=6
/usr/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para ssid="SreeniHome"
/usr/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para addmac=00095B649227

/usr/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para encmode=off
/usr/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wlan_para wepmode=off

/usr/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 msglevel 0

/usr/sbin/iwpriv wlan0 enable

dhcpcd -n wlan0

echo "$(/sbin/ifconfig wlan0)"

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The card comes up, connects & even gets an IP address ( 192.168....) from my
wireless router via DHCP.

But, I am not even able to ping my router. Could any one help to solve this?

Thanks,

Sreeni

What happens when you try to ping your router, exactly? Are you sure that your router can be pinged? Many hardware routers don't return pings.
Also, can you attach the output of the following?

Code:

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/sbin/ifconfig -a
route -n

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Hi,

Here is the output of ifconfig -a
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lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16346 Metric:1
RX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1956 (1.9 Kb) TX byttes:1956 (1.9 Kb)

sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in--IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 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 bytesL0 (0.0 b)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:5B:64:92:27
inet addr:192.169.0.103 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::209:5bff:fe64:9227/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:28923 (28.2 Kb) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Baseaddress:0x4800

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output of route -n is
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 wlan0
0.0.0.0 192.168.0.3 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
wlan0
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Thanks for your help,

Sreeni

There doesn't seem to be anything wrong at all there. Again, are you sure that your router is even capable of pinging. It's not unusual that these hardware routers/accesspoints don't return pings at all.

Yea, I am able to ping the router from my other laptop which also connects to the same router ( uses a Linksys WPC11V3) card..

Also when I try to do a 'route del *' I get :

Makefile: Host name lookup failure


& 'route add -net 192.168.0.0 dev wlan0 gives me

"SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument".

Thanbks,

Sreeni