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
