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Old 28th May 2010
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first off... you guys rock. thanks so much for the fast and quality responses. And I am using 4.7 stable, sorry I forgot to mention that.

@ocicat : I setup an /etc/hostname.urtw0 :
Code:
dhcp NONE NONE NONE nwkey 0xmysecretkey chan 1
When it boots though, with the usb device plugged in. I noticed it did not try to acquire a dhcp address (as it normally shows in the bootup process). Once logged in I performed :
Code:
#ifconfig urtw0
urtw0: no such interface
#inconfig urtw0 up
ifconfig: SIOCGIFFLAGS: Device not configured
So that's odd... unplugging it and plugging it back in though gets it recognized as I posted above.

Scanning doesn't work, it just says the information like ifconfig rather than showing all the networks (the pcmcia picks them up)
Code:
#ifconfig urtw0 scan
urtw0: flags=8803<UP,BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lladder 00:c0:ca:1c:44:2a
priority: 4
groups: wlan
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect
status: no network
ieee80211: nwid "" 100dBm
Setting the channel makes no difference. I was actually doing that but simply forgot to add that line in the post. Adding the channel, nwid, nwkey, and performing dhclient urtw0 I get the same response :

Code:
#ifconfig urtw0
urtw0: flags=8803<UP,BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lladder 00:c0:ca:1c:44:2a
priority: 4
groups: wlan
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect
status: no network
ieee80211: nwid mynetwork chan 1 nwkey 0xmykey 100dBm
inet6 fe80::.....snip....442a%urtw0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
#dhclient urtw0
urtw0: no link ............. sleeping
This is a pretty amazing usb device. It works under debian flavors, and of course windows. So I guarantee it is fully operational. The ESSID is broadcasting, and the exact same sequence of steps works for the pcmcia. I haven't tried connecting to an open network, but seeing as how the card won't even perform a scan, I think there is a bigger problem.

Trying to set it up statically doesn't seem to get me anywhere, but maybe this will help you guys :
Code:
#ifconfig urtw0 inet 192.168.1.57 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
#ifconfig urtw0
urtw0: flags=8803<UP,BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lladder 00:c0:ca:1c:44:2a
priority: 4
groups: wlan
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect
status: no network
ieee80211: nwid mynetwork chan 1 nwkey 0xmykey 100dBm
inet6 fe80::.....snip....442a%urtw0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
inet 192.168.1.57 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
#ping 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Network is down
ping: wrote 192.168.1.1 64 chars, ret=-1
Anyways guys, thanks again for the help, it's really appreciated. Hopefully something above will help identify the problem. Thanks so much!
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