SuSE 8.0 and Netgear MA401 802.11b card (help needed)
What hoops do I have to jump thru to get my Netgear MA401 wireless card to work? thanks I've tried a number of different things with no success. ---------------------------- Lionel B. Dyck <>< AIM: lbdyck Home page: http://www.lbdsoftware.com
On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 20:51, Lionel B. Dyck wrote:
What hoops do I have to jump thru to get my Netgear MA401 wireless card to work?
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I've tried a number of different things with no success. ---------------------------- Lionel B. Dyck <>< AIM: lbdyck Home page: http://www.lbdsoftware.com
Hi Lionel! Have you had a look at http://www.linux-wlan.com ??? It is the source for help with certain files for wireless stuff in 8.0. /etc/pcmcia/ has 5 files for wireless stuff: wireless wireless.opts wlan-ng wlan-ng.conf wlan-ng.opts obviously, the wlan files are the ones I'm talking about. ;) Here's a snip from wlan-ng.conf: <snip> card "NETGEAR MA401 11Mbps 802.11 WLAN Card" version "NETGEAR MA401 Wireless PC", "Card", "Version 01.00" bind "prism2_cs" </snip> I don't know how to configure it myself because I don't have wireless equipment, but I'm sure the site will help. It looked like a pretty good site. :) Once you get it working, please post back your steps so I can save them, and if you're not too busy, post your experiences for your laptop to http://www.linux-laptop.net so everyone can see how to do it! :) Cheers! Travis.
First *THANKS* to Keith Winston and Joshua Marshall for their posts on ho= w to=20 configure my Netgear MA401 under SuSE 8.0. Using Keith's write up I found that I had to make only 3 changes: 1. /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia change PCMCIA_SYSTEM=3D"external" 2. /etc/sysconfig/hotplug change HOTPLUG_NET_DEFAULT_HARDWARE=3Dpcmcia 3. /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.conf change the statement card "NETGEAR MA401 11Mbps 802.11 WLAN Card" to comment out the bind "prism2_cs" and insert bind "orinoco_cs" Then a reboot and all is well. The card did not require any other=20 customization and it works just fine.
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