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   Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:17:58 +0000   
   From: Derek Turner    
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   Subject: Sorry, wireless again (!)   
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   My Gigabyte wireless nic wouldn't run under linux (any flavour) so I did   
   some research and found that Netgear's WG311 was supported so I bought   
   one. First snag, they're now on version 3 and it was version one that   
   was supported.   
      
   In Mandriva the card was detected, it offered to use ndiswrapper, I used   
   a driver off the CD and it just worked. No problems at all.   
      
   Not so in ubuntu 6.10, the card was there in the PCI bus but not recognized.   
      
   Found this very helpful link   
   http://www.jimbo7.com/wiki/index.php?title=WG311v3   
   and followed it up to the WPA-PSK bit, which doesn't work at all with   
   ubuntu.   
      
   Now the card is seen, in Sytem>Netwoking the wireless card is shown, the   
   green light blinks but it just won't seem to get an IP from the wireless   
   server.   
      
   I feel that I am 'so near yet so far' from cracking this so any advice    
   gratefully received. wpasupplicant (which I presume = the debian    
   wpa_supplicant) is loaded by the way. Tried turning off all security on    
   the router and having no passkey in 'Networking' but still no joy.   
      
   Forgot to say that Wireless Assistant 'sees' and correctly identifies    
   the SSID.   
      
   Derek.   
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