Another wg111v2 question

metalinjury wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I recently installed OpenSuse 11.1 and have been facing tons of issues
> with my wg111v2 USB wireless adapter.
>
> I have been reading that 11.1 supports the adpater out-of-the-box,
> what does it exactly mean? When I tried to connect it right after
> installation, I got the following error
> Firmware isl3887usb_bare not found. I am still not sure how some of the
> posters here got that working :(.
>
> I then went on to download the driver from ‘Linux Wireless’
> (http://linuxwireless.org/).
>
> Before we get there here is some info about my setup
>
> Code:
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>
> uname -r
> 2.6.27.7-9-pae
>
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>
>
>
> Code:
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>
> lsusb
> Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0846:4240 NetGear, Inc. WG111v2 54 Mbps Wireless [RealTek RTL8187L]
>
> --------------------
>
>
> So, I got the prism firmware from the above site (
> USB 2nd generation (ISL3887) → isl3887usb_bare → Kernel older than
> 2.6.28)
>
> In YAST, configured to use networkmanager, restarted the m/c and
> plugged-in the USB adapter. I finally was able to see my wireless
> network and was able to browse the net.
> However, the fun didn’t last longer, intermittently the connection
> keeps dropping. The only way to get it to work again is unplug and
> replug the WG111.
> When the connection is dropped, dmesg gives following error:
>
> Code:
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>
> wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
> phy0: unknown frame RXed (0x1e)
> wlan0: No ProbeResp from current AP aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff - assume out of range
> wlan0: authenticate with AP aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff
> wlan0: authenticate with AP aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff
> wlan0: authenticate with AP aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff
> wlan0: authentication with AP aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff timed out
> usb 2-4: USB disconnect, address 3
>
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>
>
> After the unplug/replug sequence, network again works for some time
> before disconnection.
> The frustrating part is, I had somehow got it to work a few weeks back,
> but then when I tried to install the NVidia drivers, the kernel got
> updated and everything got screwed up. Today evening I finally
> reformatted and reinstalled 11.1 again to get a clean slate, however the
> same problem has started again.
>
> Any suggestion what could be causing this frequent disconnects?
> Also, can someone explain me what is really the out-of-box support if I
> have to get the right driver file?
>
>
> TIA !!
>
>