Tom K wrote:
> Doug Jolley wrote:
>> > if you decide to go down that road.
>>
>> I'd like to go down that road. Since I already have an MA111, it
>> would be great if I could just go ahead and use it.
>>
>> One question, though. From the reading that I've been doing it
>> appears (although nothing is certain and everything is confusing)
>> that the MA111 uses a Prism chip. That being the case, I would think
>> that I could get it to work using the Prism54 firmware.
>
> MA111 uses the Prism2/2.5/3 chipset, not the Prism GT/Duette, as
> detailed by Rickard in this thread, so wlan-ng26 is the way to go. The
> wlan-ng26-utils package provides the required firmware, to go with the
> kernel module in the wlan-ng26 package.
>> I was looking into that when I got your message. Anyway, it would be
>> a big help to me if I could kind of just follow in on your coat tails
>> since you already have this working with the hardware that I have.
>> If you could shoot me off whatever you think I need, that would be
>> great. Thanks.
>
> I see Tobias has also written his own init for this - interesting. :)
> Mine is a more "traditional" Arch init script, and it handles WEP
> (wlan-ng26 doesn't do WPA). I don't have a PKGBUILD for it
> (shocking!), so just install it in /etc/rc.d with any name you like
> (I've called it wlan-doug here), make it executable, and add it to the
> DAEMONS array before network.
>
> You'll also need to add the following line to /etc/modprobe.conf:
> alias wlan0 prism2_usb
>
> Let me know if you have any comments/questions/problems/etc.
>
> Tom K
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> . /etc/rc.conf
> . /etc/rc.d/functions
>
> case "$1" in
> start)
> stat_busy "Enabling WLAN device"
> wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable 1> /dev/null
> wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset mibattribute=p2CnfRoamingMode=1 1>
> /dev/null
> wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset mibattribute=dot11WEPDefaultKeyID=0 1>
> /dev/null
> wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset
> mibattribute=dot11ExcludeUnencrypted=true 1> /dev/null
> wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset mibattribute=dot11PrivacyInvoked=true 1>
> /dev/null
> wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset
> mibattribute=dot11WEPDefaultKey0=***YOUR_WEP_KEY_HERE*** 1> /dev/null
> wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_autojoin ssid=***YOUR_SSID_HERE***
> authtype=opensystem 1> /dev/null
> if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then
> stat_fail
> else
> stat_done
> add_daemon wlan-doug
> fi
> ;;
> stop)
> stat_busy "Disabling WLAN device"
> wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=disable 1> /dev/null
> if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then
> stat_fail
> else
> stat_done
> rm_daemon wlan-doug
> fi
> ;;
> restart)
> $0 stop
> sleep 1
> $0 start
> ;;
> *)
> echo "usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
> esac
>
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Correction, I never said it used the prism GT/Duette, I said it used a
prism chipset and later on i said that my card the Zyxel Zyair G-100
uses the prism GT/Duette chipset
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