AWUS036H and R2

[Tazdrummer]

So I purchased the AWUS036H from Amazon and it arrived yesterday.

I got around to trying this out late, so, I expect I could have missed something.

Here are the steps I did (I am running Backtrack 4 R2 on this laptop BTW);

1. I first disabled the built in wireless (Broadcom) on the Dell E6400.
2. I plug in the USB cable.
3. I run ifconfig wlan0 up.
4. The card appears when I run ifconfig. So I know that part is at least working.
5. I run dhclient wlan0
6. Unfortunately that timed out. I could lift the laptop and touch the router I am trying to get it to see (just in case someone had that thought... lol)

I do a little late night Googling and tried these steps as well....
I ran rmmod rtl8187 and then ran modprobe r8187.
I ran through steps 3 through 5 and ended with the same results in step 6.
I even tried rmmod r8187 to try modprobe rtl8187 and still the same thing happened (I ran through steps 3 through 5 and ended with the same results in step 6.)
Tonight I was going to do a deeper dive back into it.

If there are any other things I can try or missed, any help would be appreciated.

[KMDave]

Yep, you should check out WICD.

There is also a command called iwconfig

No go on and do some research, I think you'll be able to find something useful with the info given above.

[Tazdrummer]

Yep, you should check out WICD.

There is also a command called iwconfig

No go on and do some research, I think you'll be able to find something useful with the info given above.

I knew I was gonna get a little snarkiness.

I know about iwconfig and WICD. I don't know them as well as a lot of others here might. I will take this opportunity to learn those two a bit better though.

I was able to find the solution to my problem (approximately 30 minutes after I initially posted this go figure).