I have a ASUS A2400H Laptop. I followed the following two forum threads and have WEP working on my PCMCIA Netgear WG511.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=177446&highlight=wg511 The thread above is the for the WG511 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=225871&highlight=wg511 This thread is for wireless configuration and startup. It currently supports WEP encryption. Last I checked UberLord is still working on getting WAP working. This will get your wireless configuration working. A couple of hints: 1. I noticed you have madwifi-driver installed. Do a: emerge unmerge madwifi-driver To remove it. Trying to use multiple drivers at once may cause problems. 2. I have not yet used it but the net-wireless/wpa_supplicant package supports WPA and the Prism chipset. I'm not sure if it uses the PRISM54 kernel driver and have not as yet messed with a working configuration. David Stewen -----Original Message----- From: Marc Schlienger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 5 January 2005 8:33 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Wireless lan with netgear wg511 and Gentoo Hi, I just bought a Netgear WG511 wireless lan cardbus card. I never used wireless lan or pcmcia before. I'm using Gentoo 2004.3 together with a 2.6.7-r9 kernel. The laptop is a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo with a Pentium3 based Celeron processor. Now that's what I have done yet 1. Kernel configuration: - Bus options -> PCMCIA/CardBus support -> yes - Bus options -> PCMCIA/CardBus support -> CardBus yenta-compatible bridge support -> yes - Device Drivers -> Networking support -> Wireless LAN -> yes (CONFIG_NET_RADIO) - Device Drivers -> Networking support -> Wireless LAN -> Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo PCI/Cerdbus (CONFIG_PRISM54) - Device Drivers -> Networking support -> PCMCIA network device support -> yes (CONFIG_NET_PCMCIA) 2. Software I emerged: - pcmcia-cs - madwifi-driver - wireless-tools - prism54-firmware 3. Configuration: - ln -s /etc/init.d/net.eth0 /etc/init.d/net.eth2 - modprobe ath_pci - /etc/conf.d/wireless: essid_eth2="wireless" mode_eth2="managed" adhoc_essid_eth2="wireless" sleep_scan_eth2="10" associate_test_eth2="MAC" scan_mode_eth2="managed" key_wireless="any" - /etc/conf.d/pcmcia # Put cardmgr options here CARDMGR_OPTS="-f" # To set the PCMCIA scheme at startup... SCHEME="home" # If using kernel PCMCIA drivers, PCIC should be "yenta_socket". If # using the pcmcia-cs drivers, this shhould be either "i82365" or # "tcic", # depending on your pcmcia hardware. # If using kernel drivers not as modules, set PCIC to "" PCIC="i82365" # Put socket driver timing parameters here PCIC_OPTS="" # Alternative PCIC driver to use if PCIC driver fails PCIC_ALT="i82365" PCIC_ALT_OPTS="" # Put pcmcia_core options here CORE_OPTS="" 4. Part of dmesg output Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:0a.0 [10cf:10e7] Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0820, PCI irq 9 Socket status: 30000006 Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:0a.1 [10cf:10e7] Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0820, PCI irq 9 Socket status: 30000820 ... eth2: prism54 driver detected card model: Netgear WG511 ... ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel. ath_hal: 0.9.12.5 wlan: 0.8.4.3 (EXPERIMENTAL) ath_rate_onoe: no version for "ether_sprintf" found: kernel tainted. ath_rate_onoe: 1.0 ath_pci: 0.9.4.6 (EXPERIMENTAL) cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7 cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1 eth2: islpci_open() eth2: resetting device... eth2: uploading firmware... eth2: firmware uploaded done, now triggering reset... eth2: device soft reset timed out eth2: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, trigging device eth2: timeout waiting for mgmt response eth2: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, trigging device eth2: timeout waiting for mgmt response eth2: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, trigging device eth2: timeout waiting for mgmt response eth2: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, trigging device eth2: timeout waiting for mgmt response eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: mgt_commit has failed. Restart the device eth2: mgmt tx queue is still full eth2: islpci_close () The Card has two LEDs which are both on but it didn't get the router. I have played with different kernel configurations, for example I tried not to use yenta-socket (see /etc/init.d/pcmcia above), but without success. What's wrong? I guess there was a wireless lan howto on the Gentoo Homepage. Am I wrong or where is it? Regards Marc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
