I'm using a Netgear MA301 with MA401 on a desktop (that is the card with a PCMCIA-PCI adapter). With beta 4 everything worked perfectly (autodetected and working). Since RC3 (I skipped RC1 and RC2) though, it doesn't work anymore (except during installation where the card is detected, the network is brought up, traffic is generated to check for updates, etc.). After installation, nothing works anymore. Below is the output from the various commands/programs I ran while trying to figure this out:
HardDrake: Vendor: Netgear Bus: PCI Identification bus: 1385:4100 Location on the bus: 0:8:0 Description: 802.11b Wireless Adapter (MA301) Module: orinoco_plx Media class: NETWORK_OTHER I noticed that there is no mention of the MA401 PCMCIA adapter card. dmesg: eth0: Station identity 001f:0003:0000:0008 eth0: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 0.08 eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key eth0: MAC address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX eth0: Station name "Prism I" eth0: ready eth0: error -5 reading info frame. Frame dropped. iwconfig: eth0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"Wireless" Nickname:"home-william.themannfam.com" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00 Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3 Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0/92 Signal level:134/153 Noise level:134/153 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Obviously something changed between beta 4 and release regarding wireless management. My other desktop still has beta 4 and the wireless is working flawlessly. I installed the release version on my laptop (no PCI-PCMCIA adapter) and everything worked perfectly so it seems to be a problem with the PCMCIA adapter card. I just don't understand why it works during install but doesn't afterwards. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. William