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 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
Descrizione: 802.11b Wireless Adapter (MA301)
Modulo: 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 (same on my laptop). I'll be installing the
release version on the laptop today just to see if the wireless card
works because I think the problem has to do 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
