I got the MA701 wireless card that many of you recommended. but I'm still having major problems .. and the guy who sent this is one of them.. A search on their site produced some red hat info ... but it was for 6.x and so on... BTW it's of some note that it doesn't work w/ XP either: or so the site claims. IT is mucho better on battery life tho, so if I could get it running, I could surf my suse 8.1 box as well as the net...
TIA y'all
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Dear Sir/Madam,
Thank you for contacting Netgear Support. My name is Manu & I will be handling your enquiry.
No drivers are available for linux machine for MA701 adapter. This unit will not work with linux machine.
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Manu Sharma
Netgear Support
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--Original Message--
linux setup MA701.. It appears to be connected to
my wireless / ethernet router. i.e. the led is a
solid green w/ very rare flashes ...
however. I cann't ping any one of the computers
in hte lan, nor can I ping the router. As in, I type
ping 192.168.xxx.xxx it braodcasts , but never ever gets
any information back.
The same thing happens w/ the internet I can get it to atempt
to get to a web site, but it always finds no host.
I've not registered it yet, as it seems not to be a
product I want to keep. ( It doesn't do anything that
I can see So it's potentail use is more than limited , it's bloody useless!!
I am using a zaurus 5500 w/ the latest upgrades. It is of course not a windows system, but I had heard raves for this
specific model from other Suse/Zaurus users.
help!!!
##ERIGNORE##
NAME: jfweber
EMAIL: jfweber@bellsouth.net
QUESTION: linux setup MA701.. It appears to be connected to
my wireless / ethernet router. i.e. the led is a
solid green w/ very rare flashes ...
however. I cann't ping any one of the computers
in hte lan, nor can I ping the router. As in, I type
ping 192.168.xxx.xxx it braodcasts , but never ever gets
any information back.
The same thing happens w/ the internet I can get it to atempt
to get to a web site, but it always finds no host.
I've not registered it yet, as it seems not to be a
product I want to keep. ( It doesn't do anything that
I can see So it's potentail use is more than limited , it's bloody useless!!
I am using a zaurus 5500 w/ the latest upgrades. It is of course not a windows system, but I had heard raves for this
specific model from other Suse/Zaurus users.
help!!!
CATEGORY: <!--[[prodfamily]]--> <!--[[product]]-->
OS: Suse linux 8.1
DRIVER/FIRMWARE VERSION: MA701
PURCHASE DATE: 11/28/2002
SERIAL NUMBER: MA71A27ZC006633
COUNTRY: usa
ESCALATE: [X] None of the above
ERSID: 1038595394.9064.8
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j
afterthought: I come from a good home ... that's why they don't want me back.
