I'm glad it worked for you. It didn't work for me. On Friday 01 November 2002 07:20 am, Patrick Atlas wrote: > Thanks Simon, I saved my souls... and my wireless connection. > I have point-by-point followed your indications and now my Netgear MA401 > PCMCIA wireless card is working fine on my notepad. > > Some points to fix, yet: > > It seems that the > WIRELESS_ESSID > WIRELESS_ENC_KEY > options are erased after reinitialization of the PCMCIA or the SERVICES, in > the ifcfg-ethX file. > Any idea? > > So I need to write the END_KEY. > The KEY must be written in hexadecimal or ASCII? > > Patrick Atlas > > Le Mardi 29 Octobre 2002 15:37, Simon Ree a �crit : > > On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:39:28 -0600 > > > > engage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yesterday, I installed ML 9 on a Compaq Presario 1200T > > > notebook with a Netgear MA401 PCMCIA wireless card. Also, > > > I installed the linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre4 package. The > > > prism2_cs and p80211 modules get loaded and the wireless > > > card LED indicates that it sees the AP (steady LED light) > > > which seems to indicate that the config files are properly > > > set up. But the AP doesn't show it associated . Using > > > ifconfig to configure wlan0 gives an error that no such > > > device exists but it does give it an IP address. ifconfig > > > wlan0 shows that it is up and running. But, I can't ping > > > the AP (network is unreachable). I can ping the address > > > for wlan0 though. I've spent hours researching how-to's > > > and faq's but I'm at a loss as to how to get this card to > > > work. Any suggestions? > > > > I had many of the same problems and never managed to get the > > wlang drivers to work with my Linksys wpc11 card. Binding > > the card to orinoco_cs works great with minimal set up and > > works with your MA401. > > > > Uninstall wlang > > Install the wireless tools package from your distro cd. > > Copy the attached hermes.conf file to etc/pcmcia > > service pcmcia restart > > service network restart > > mcc & > > > > Reconfigure your network connections, you should now have > > your card detected. You can set the WIRELESS_ options on > > one of the configurations panels but they get tossed > > whenever you make a subsequent change, so I manually set > > them in the ifcfg-ethX file. > > > > To manually set the options edit your > > network script: > > > > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX (X being your eth > > number) > > > > Add the following entries if you need them: > > > > WIRELESS_ESSID="yourAP" > > WIRELESS_ENC_KEY="whatever your 128bit key may be" > > > > service network restart > > > > and you should be on your way, hope this helps. Your cards > > manfid may be different to the one in my hermes.conf file. > > Just run > cardctl ident from the command line to get your > > cards specific manfid and edit the hermes.conf file. This > > is the only method that >I< have been able to get to work > > with my cards and I have tried many a method. If someone > > knows exactly how to do this any easier I would love to > > know. > > > > Simon Ree > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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