Netgear wg511T does not work using ubuntu 8.04

[Bill Zaumen]

I booted from the 8.04 live CD and my wireless card, a Netgear wg511T could not be configured using the GUI
tool (system->administration->network), although lshw and iwlist showed that the hardware and driver
were working. This card works as expected with ubuntu 6.06.

With some experimentation based on the "WifiDocs WIreless TroubleShooting Guide", I
found that I could in fact configure a wireless connection by running the command

      sudo iwconfig ath0 essid XXXXX key XXX

followed by

     dhclient ath0

at that point, the wireless connection came up.

The wireless guide, however, recommended using the 'commit' flag for iwconfig, and if I used that flag,
iwconfig would fail. My guess is that the Network GUI may be doing the equivalent of running iwconfig
with the commit flag. If so, retrying without this flag may help.

The Netgear wg511t card may be using a restricted driver. Given that I can make the card work using
command line programs, the problem does not seem to be with the driver (other than something not
supporting the commit operation).

[Ian Weisser (ian-weisser)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Bill Zaumen (zaumen)]

On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 16:40 +0000, IanW wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
> any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue
> for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
> Sourcepackagename: None => network-manager
> Status: New => Incomplete

It is still an issue - I'm running ubuntu 8.04 but have the latest
packages, and the behavior is still the same. I've been able to
use my laptop's wireless card, though, by configuring it using
command-line programs as described in the bug report.

I'm in the middle of some software development and can't upgrade
to a newer release at this point.

Bill

[Ian Weisser (ian-weisser)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Please include the information requested at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingNetworkManager. If you have trouble, do not hesitate to ask for more assistance. Thanks in advance.

[Ian Weisser (ian-weisser)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information.