I'm using an Ethernet to WiFi bridge on my G5.

It cost about £10 on eBay from China.

The weird thing is that it's very fast on MorphOS but on osx it is very slow.

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Hi All !
I bay this :

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Chinapost-VAP11G-RJ45-Mini-WIFI-Bridge-Wireless-Bridge-For-Dreambox-Openbox-Xbox-PS3-PC-Camera-TV/521120958.html

Wintel required for initialization.
Macmini work without problems.
MacBook requires some tricks.

I am having an issue with the wireless settings.
If I have a connection and do a shutdown/poweroff , connection is no longer possible.
Only way to get it back online is choose another network save reboot and choose my own network again reenter the wpa2 key ,then it's back online.
Anybody else experiencing this kind off behaviour?

I am the CommVEx show in Las Vegas, displaying MorphOS3.2 on my 17" G4 PowerBook, and AmigaOS4.1.6 on my X1000. I can get my Netgear WG511T wireless NIC to connect to the hotel WLAN, but for some strange reason, it only wants to work for a few minutes, then loses it's wireless connection until I reboot.

I would like to demonstrate a truly wirelessly connected Amiga-Like laptop to everyone here, but have no idea what the problem might be.

Any ideas why it is dropping it's wireless connection to the hotel's WLAN?

Edit: Can only get connected to the hotel's WLAN using DHCP. One of the other users here might be able to set up his equipment to broadcast a different WLAN that I might be able to use a static IP address to connect to, but that has not been accomplished yet. Is DHCP working for my Netgear card while running MorphOS3.2?



[ Edited by amigadave 26.07.2013 - 21:07 ]

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I had this problem when my router was set to any channel above 11.

When I set it to use channel 3 (None of my neighbours seemed to be using this channel) the problem went away.

Hope this helps.

Unfortunately, I can't change the channel of the hotel's router, so will have to suffer with how it is partially working now, or depend on Tim to set up a secondary WLAN that I can connect to.

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Perhaps you could teher your mobileephone to your Powerbook and use it's internet connection?

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Actually, it seems to be working faster now, so maybe the hotel WLAN is performing better today.

Are there any other threads here or on other forum sites that suggest any settings I can change to improve wireless performance? It is acceptable now, so I am not worried about changing it too much.

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As AmigaDave is in the United States, channels above 11 are generally not being used anywhere as operation of channel 12 and 13 are only allowed in low power modes which dramatically reduce the network range. (The situation is similar in Canada.)

Having a completely portable MorphOS3.2 is really great! Too bad I only brought one of my two PowerBook batteries with me, and it is the weaker of the two at that, so my battery life is limited to less than an hour.

My 15" G4 PowerBook just recently one of it's cooling fans fail, and I have not yet completed the replacement of both fans and the heat sink, so this 17" G4 PowerBook is my only working laptop computer at the moment. I noticed that the thermal paste on that model was way too much and I doubt it was cooling well the last few months, which probably contributed to the failure of the fan, as it was probably running more often than it should have been. It would probably be a good idea for any G4 PowerBook owner to disassemble and re-apply the thermal paste on the heat sinks, or Graphics and CPU chips, to lengthen the life of their G4 PowerBook.

Do any of you know if MorphOS3.2 allows Internet Sharing, like MacOSX does?

Can I connect any Ethernet cable and serve my wireless Internet to another computer, like I can while running MacOSX?

Probably would not do it too often, but it might come in handy once in a while.

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Nope. You'd have to install MiamiDX ;)

So, and I'm sure this has been covered, but if the TL WN550G Atheros based PCI card works under AROS it can be assumed to work under MorphOS?

I think I haven't reported earlier that I have ZyXEL G-170S cardbus card and it's working fine under MorphOS on Powerbook 5,9. I've used it on my own WPA2 WLAN and on our city's free public WLAN.

> if the TL WN550G Atheros based PCI card works under AROS it can be assumed
> to work under MorphOS?

Yes.

Thanks Andreas.
I decide to move one PowerMac to a location that would be difficult to run Cat5 wiring to.
So the wireless card become necessary.
And the adapter I have for my iBook is prohibitively expensive.

Krashan,
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I just bought a Netgear WG511 v2 and plugged it in in my Powerbook 5.9 with MOS 3.4.

But nothing happens, no new device, and no lights on the card.

>As the card does not physically fit my Dell M4300 of Amiga 1200 is it possible to test this >Netgear card for 100% working ?

Update: the card does work in my Dell M4300 laptop.

[ Edited by bennymee 21.12.2013 - 20:46 ]

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Quick googling tells that WG511 v2 has either Marvell or Prism chipset, so it's not going to work. Only Atheros chipset based cards are supported.

jPV,
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OK thanks, I asummed al 511WG xxx had the right chipset.

I'll search for a new one somewhere....

[ Edited by bennymee 21.12.2013 - 21:29 ]

Pegasos 2 B1
MorphOS 3.4
Netgear WG311T wifi card

Working!

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Confusing naming by Netgear: WG511T is a card based on the Atheros chipset. It is a 108Mbps card that works at 54Mbps on MorphOS (and AROS or AmigaOS). WG511v2 is a 54Mbps card based on Marvell chipset that does NOT work on MorphOS (or Aros or AmigaOS). I happen to be using the WG511T card on my PowerBook right now and it works just fine...

Kind regards,
Andrea

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Unfortunately you can't assume anything with these. Manufacturers have changed chipsets like socks and you'll have to check exact model numbers and versions. In really worst case like with this, there has even been two different chipsets with same model/version number.

jPV,
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I received my Netgear WG511T and the card is recognized by Morphos on my Powerbook G4 after a reboot.
After connecting to my WPA2 SSID cable modem I got the message in OWB: could not resolve hostname.
But after changing the channel in the cable modem from 10 to 6 the message is gone and I can browse in OWB.

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There is a small mistake if you use a text-key: you will need quotion marks for the key!
eg:
.............
wep_key0="125689blablabla6565"
............

I don't know why, but my Netgear W511T needs as first line in wireless.prefs following line:

update_config=1

network={
ssid="mynet2"
key_mgmt=NONE
wep_key0="blablabla123"
wep_tx_keyidx=0
}

Without that line, Atheros-Chip won't go online........

[ Editiert durch Amigaharry2 05.01.2014 - 16:43 ]

Just ordered the TP-Link TL-WN610G PCMCIA card for my PowerBook as they are very cheap (~10€ new) and the chipset is AR2414: listed as supported by the ath5k driver.
TL-WN610G.jpg
In my PowerMac there's a regular 54Mbps TL-WN350GD PCI card (AR2417) for MorphOS.