Thanks Simon, I saved my souls... and my wireless connection. I have point-by-point followed your indications and now my Netgear MA401 PCMCIA wireless card is working fine on my notepad.
Some points to fix, yet: It seems that the WIRELESS_ESSID WIRELESS_ENC_KEY options are erased after reinitialization of the PCMCIA or the SERVICES, in the ifcfg-ethX file. Any idea? So I need to write the END_KEY. The KEY must be written in hexadecimal or ASCII? Patrick Atlas Le Mardi 29 Octobre 2002 15:37, Simon Ree a écrit : > On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:39:28 -0600 > > engage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yesterday, I installed ML 9 on a Compaq Presario 1200T > > notebook with a Netgear MA401 PCMCIA wireless card. Also, > > I installed the linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre4 package. The > > prism2_cs and p80211 modules get loaded and the wireless > > card LED indicates that it sees the AP (steady LED light) > > which seems to indicate that the config files are properly > > set up. But the AP doesn't show it associated . Using > > ifconfig to configure wlan0 gives an error that no such > > device exists but it does give it an IP address. ifconfig > > wlan0 shows that it is up and running. But, I can't ping > > the AP (network is unreachable). I can ping the address > > for wlan0 though. I've spent hours researching how-to's > > and faq's but I'm at a loss as to how to get this card to > > work. Any suggestions? > > I had many of the same problems and never managed to get the > wlang drivers to work with my Linksys wpc11 card. Binding > the card to orinoco_cs works great with minimal set up and > works with your MA401. > > Uninstall wlang > Install the wireless tools package from your distro cd. > Copy the attached hermes.conf file to etc/pcmcia > service pcmcia restart > service network restart > mcc & > > Reconfigure your network connections, you should now have > your card detected. You can set the WIRELESS_ options on > one of the configurations panels but they get tossed > whenever you make a subsequent change, so I manually set > them in the ifcfg-ethX file. > > To manually set the options edit your > network script: > > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX (X being your eth > number) > > Add the following entries if you need them: > > WIRELESS_ESSID="yourAP" > WIRELESS_ENC_KEY="whatever your 128bit key may be" > > service network restart > > and you should be on your way, hope this helps. Your cards > manfid may be different to the one in my hermes.conf file. > Just run > cardctl ident from the command line to get your > cards specific manfid and edit the hermes.conf file. This > is the only method that >I< have been able to get to work > with my cards and I have tried many a method. If someone > knows exactly how to do this any easier I would love to > know. > > Simon Ree > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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