Re: [SLE] Netgear MA401 WiFi

I have one of these in an old PII/233mhz maching running SuSE 8.2, and it works great! I didn't have to do a thing...SuSE just picked it up upon installation, unlike RH which was a real pain in the ass. I did check on the chipset, and it's a Prism, so you might want to give those drivers a try. I had to use these drivers as well on RH. Good luck! Anthony

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"David Bottrill" 07/18/03 06:03 AM >>>

Jay Vollmer said:

Is there anything special that needs to be done to get SuSE 8.2 Pro to recognise a Netgear MA401 WiFi card?

I'm using external PCMCIA and the card is not being recognized; I get "beep-boop" rather than "beep-beep."

Jay, I'm using one of these cards, it worked well on 8.1 and was automatically recognised. However on 8.2 it was being detected as a WLAN NG compatible card rather than using the native Orinoco driver that works fine. Firstly I'm using Kernel rather than external PCMCIA that should hopefully fix the "beep-boop" problem. I then followed the SuSE guide for getting wireless cards to work: http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wavelan.html Have a look at the troubleshooting section, make sure you bind the orinoco driver to the the unique entry you require for your card. -- David Bottrill david@bottrill.org -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com