Wireless on Netgear DG384GT

[J03]

Hi everyone. I'm having some problem's with my wireless router. The light on the front, for the wireless is not lit, and if i type "ifconfig" into a telnet session with it, it doesnt appear on the list. Here is the output of the "ifconfig" and "iwconfig" command's:

# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

atm0      no wireless extensions.

cpcs0     no wireless extensions.

dsl0      no wireless extensions.

Warning: Driver for device eth0 has been compiled with version 0
of Wireless Extension, while this program is using version 16.
Some things may be broken...

eth0        ESSID:off/any  Nickname:""
          NWID:10008260  Frequency:268.469MHz  Access Point: 72:70:00:21:00:00
          Bit Rate:2.14745Gb/s   Tx-Power:off   Sensitivity:268468832/0
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000
          Power Management:off

tunl0     no wireless extensions.

br0       no wireless extensions.

ppp0      no wireless extensions.

And ifconfig:

# ifconfig
br0       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:B5:C5:F9:36
          inet addr:192.168.0.1  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:24378 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:19571 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:4358881 (4.1 MiB)  TX bytes:4325195 (4.1 MiB)

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:B5:C5:F9:36
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:24379 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:19571 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:4797749 (4.5 MiB)  TX bytes:4433318 (4.2 MiB)
          Interrupt:30 Base address:0x6800

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:337 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:337 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:99564 (97.2 KiB)  TX bytes:99564 (97.2 KiB)

ppp0      Link encap:Point-Point Protocol
          inet addr:78.32.84.161  P-t-P:84.45.242.69  Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1458  Metric:1
          RX packets:1226 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1335 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
          RX bytes:615141 (600.7 KiB)  TX bytes:298810 (291.8 KiB)

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Im seriously hoping it's a software, rather than hardware issue. I cant really afford a new Router, what with Christmas coming up and everything....

 

[freestyler105]

Have you tried resetting the router to factory settings, or even just rebooting it?

 

[J03]

Yeah, i've tried that. thanks anyway ^^

 

[Neodude1123201]

Try going to the router's config page and check if Wireless is on.

 

[J03]

I have done that. I have also toggled it on and off, to no effect.

 

[Neodude1123201]

If im not mistaken,TX power is wireless? It says that TX Power is off,So if im not mistaken it says ur wireless is off. Is there an option in Ubuntu that turns ur wireless off?

 

[J03]

This is my Router. My computer is connected via ethernet - it's my laptop and secondary computer that are having the trouble.