Netgear WG111V2 Wireless USB

[Aloir]

Hello

As it's my first post and indeed first time using a Linux product please excuse my ignorance!

I have recently installed Kubuntu 7.04 on my Dell laptop. It installed perfectly and seems to be running well.

However, I have tried to setup the Netgear WG111V2 USB dongle which it recognised straight away, detecting networks in range. After trying to connect to a wireless network the system slows down and then the device seems to vanish. It is no longer a part of the hardware profile.

iwconfig yields 'no wireless extensions'.
dmesg yields 'end_request: I/O error on device hdc, logical block 0'

Can anyone advise me on possible solutions?

Many thanks in advance.

Al

[miwarlock002]

Re: Netgear WG111V2 Wireless USB

If you could post your lspci and dmesg output as it pertains to your card.

lspci | grep Netgear

dmesg | grep /dev/hdc (sounds like your drive might be going out)

Also if you would post this output:

lsmod | grep rt2500

If this returns a value of:

rt2500 ## #

Then it's loaded. Google tells me it's a ralink chipset that works out of the box in Kubuntu. It's device name is ra0. If you are using wlassistant, that program can be flaky sometimes. Try using the System Settings menu on the K button. Hand enter the SSID of the wireless network you have. Also, you can run this in a konsole window (if you hit Alt+F2 it will open a run dialog and then you can just type konsole in the dialog and hit enter):

kdesu wlassistant

This will give you specific output as it pertains to the programs behavior in the terminal window that you can then copy and paste into a reply post.

Good Luck