Re: NETGEAR MA311 802.11b Wireless PCI Network Adapter Card
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 July 2004 15:46, Frederik Dannemare wrote: On Wednesday 07 July 2004 05:40, Rodney D. Myers wrote: I know this card is supported under Linux, and debian, but... What is involved in getting this card found/configured under Sarge? Specifically under the new net install cdrom? A lady friend is seriously considering letting me move her off of windos and onto debian. The hangup is this wifi card. I don't ant to spend all day trying to get this piece of hardware working, unless I absolutely have to. Don't know how the new installer handles wifi, but this is more or less what you should do to get the netgear ma311 working: apt-get install hostap-utils hostap-source wireless-tools hotplug echo alias wlan0 hostap_cs /etc/modutils/hostap Should have said _pci, not _cs. Thus: echo alias wlan0 hostap_pci /etc/modutils/hostap update-modules Ensure that you have a wlan0 section in /etc/network/interfaces... iwconfig wlan0 essid foobar iwconfig wlan0 mode managed Did you get it to work, btw? - -- Frederik Dannemare | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key: search for 'dannemare' on http://pgpkeys.mit.edu Key fingerprint: BB7B 078A 0DBF 7663 180A F84A 2D25 FAD5 9C4E B5A8 http://frederik.dannemare.net | http://www.linuxworlddomination.dk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA+PqmLSX61ZxOtagRAtyTAJ4mPTDCKNtJlDRYTnEokhyuGw0/oACfe9pz VekRbCpIvFxhTcGDMRRnJTk= =HQg0 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: NETGEAR MA311 802.11b Wireless PCI Network Adapter Card
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 12:08:35 +0200 Frederik Dannemare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 July 2004 15:46, Frederik Dannemare wrote: On Wednesday 07 July 2004 05:40, Rodney D. Myers wrote: I know this card is supported under Linux, and debian, but... What is involved in getting this card found/configured under Sarge? Specifically under the new net install cdrom? A lady friend is seriously considering letting me move her off of windos and onto debian. The hangup is this wifi card. I don't ant to spend all day trying to get this piece of hardware working, unless I absolutely have to. Don't know how the new installer handles wifi, but this is more or less what you should do to get the netgear ma311 working: apt-get install hostap-utils hostap-source wireless-tools hotplug echo alias wlan0 hostap_cs /etc/modutils/hostap Should have said _pci, not _cs. Thus: echo alias wlan0 hostap_pci /etc/modutils/hostap update-modules Ensure that you have a wlan0 section in /etc/network/interfaces... iwconfig wlan0 essid foobar iwconfig wlan0 mode managed Did you get it to work, btw? - -- Frederik Dannemare | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually I missed the first reply to this message, not sure how or why.. I know have this email printed out so I can try. Thanks -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 pgplDS6SOMDVL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: NETGEAR MA311 802.11b Wireless PCI Network Adapter Card
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 17 July 2004 16:40, Rodney D. Myers wrote: On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 12:08:35 +0200 Frederik Dannemare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 July 2004 15:46, Frederik Dannemare wrote: On Wednesday 07 July 2004 05:40, Rodney D. Myers wrote: I know this card is supported under Linux, and debian, but... What is involved in getting this card found/configured under Sarge? Specifically under the new net install cdrom? A lady friend is seriously considering letting me move her off of windos and onto debian. The hangup is this wifi card. I don't ant to spend all day trying to get this piece of hardware working, unless I absolutely have to. Don't know how the new installer handles wifi, but this is more or less what you should do to get the netgear ma311 working: apt-get install hostap-utils hostap-source wireless-tools hotplug echo alias wlan0 hostap_cs /etc/modutils/hostap Should have said _pci, not _cs. Thus: echo alias wlan0 hostap_pci /etc/modutils/hostap update-modules Ensure that you have a wlan0 section in /etc/network/interfaces... iwconfig wlan0 essid foobar iwconfig wlan0 mode managed Did you get it to work, btw? - -- Frederik Dannemare | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually I missed the first reply to this message, not sure how or why.. I know have this email printed out so I can try. Oh, I also forgot to mention that you should, of course, compile the hostap kernel module. This can be done like this (after having apt-get'ed hostap-source and assuming that you compile your own kernels with kernel sources located in /usr/src/linux): cd /usr/src tar zxvf hostap-source.tar.gz cd linux fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version -foobar modules_image sudo dpkg -i ../hostap-modules-2.6.5-foobar_0.1.2-2_i386.deb depmod -a Should you ever want to use the MA311 as an access point, have a look at my notes: http://sentinel.dk/cookbook/?Linux_wireless_access_point - -- Frederik Dannemare | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key: search for 'dannemare' on http://pgpkeys.mit.edu Key fingerprint: BB7B 078A 0DBF 7663 180A F84A 2D25 FAD5 9C4E B5A8 http://frederik.dannemare.net | http://www.linuxworlddomination.dk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA+XJrLSX61ZxOtagRAiedAKCFK+fFW+MOH9IZ10MGJazHCjLqGACdGDWW Hcv0EXB8Hm/PCXVmTW1kdpw= =F1Df -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: NETGEAR MA311 802.11b Wireless PCI Network Adapter Card
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 20:39:36 +0200 Frederik Dannemare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 17 July 2004 16:40, Rodney D. Myers wrote: On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 12:08:35 +0200 Frederik Dannemare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 July 2004 15:46, Frederik Dannemare wrote: On Wednesday 07 July 2004 05:40, Rodney D. Myers wrote: I know this card is supported under Linux, and debian, but... What is involved in getting this card found/configured under Sarge? Specifically under the new net install cdrom? A lady friend is seriously considering letting me move her off of windos and onto debian. The hangup is this wifi card. I don't ant to spend all day trying to get this piece of hardware working, unless I absolutely have to. Don't know how the new installer handles wifi, but this is more or less what you should do to get the netgear ma311 working: apt-get install hostap-utils hostap-source wireless-tools hotplug echo alias wlan0 hostap_cs /etc/modutils/hostap Should have said _pci, not _cs. Thus: echo alias wlan0 hostap_pci /etc/modutils/hostap update-modules Ensure that you have a wlan0 section in /etc/network/interfaces... iwconfig wlan0 essid foobar iwconfig wlan0 mode managed Did you get it to work, btw? - -- Frederik Dannemare | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually I missed the first reply to this message, not sure how or why.. I know have this email printed out so I can try. Oh, I also forgot to mention that you should, of course, compile the hostap kernel module. This can be done like this (after having apt-get'ed hostap-source and assuming that you compile your own kernels with kernel sources located in /usr/src/linux): cd /usr/src tar zxvf hostap-source.tar.gz cd linux fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version -foobar modules_image sudo dpkg -i ../hostap-modules-2.6.5-foobar_0.1.2-2_i386.deb depmod -a Should you ever want to use the MA311 as an access point, have a look at my notes: http://sentinel.dk/cookbook/?Linux_wireless_access_point - -- Frederik Dannemare | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] many thanks.. I have the kernel-source, and everything you mentioned above.. Now to try and compile the source code, and get a functioning kernel wifi card. -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 pgpcY3ED0naXq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: NETGEAR MA311 802.11b Wireless PCI Network Adapter Card
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 07 July 2004 05:40, Rodney D. Myers wrote: I know this card is supported under Linux, and debian, but... What is involved in getting this card found/configured under Sarge? Specifically under the new net install cdrom? A lady friend is seriously considering letting me move her off of windos and onto debian. The hangup is this wifi card. I don't ant to spend all day trying to get this piece of hardware working, unless I absolutely have to. Don't know how the new installer handles wifi, but this is more or less what you should do to get the netgear ma311 working: apt-get install hostap-utils hostap-source wireless-tools hotplug echo alias wlan0 hostap_cs /etc/modutils/hostap update-modules Ensure that you have a wlan0 section in /etc/network/interfaces... iwconfig wlan0 essid foobar iwconfig wlan0 mode managed - -- Frederik Dannemare | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key: search for 'dannemare' on http://pgpkeys.mit.edu Key fingerprint: BB7B 078A 0DBF 7663 180A F84A 2D25 FAD5 9C4E B5A8 http://frederik.dannemare.net | http://www.linuxworlddomination.dk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA7VBJLSX61ZxOtagRAjnKAKCGTWtKls6N/064IR1y2bwJguHRVQCfRNV0 h2tP7ENv9RCbVPKKwFwOLjY= =Rhi7 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: NETGEAR MA311 802.11b Wireless PCI Network Adapter Card
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 20:40:55 -0700 Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this card is supported under Linux, and debian, but... Thanks to all.. I have all responses compiled into one document when the card arrives. -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 pgp1MwYgtrYPx.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: NETGEAR MA311 802.11b Wireless PCI Network Adapter Card
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 08:40:55PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: | I know this card is supported under Linux, and debian, but... | | What is involved in getting this card found/configured under Sarge? | Specifically under the new net install cdrom? | | A lady friend is seriously considering letting me move her off of windos | and onto debian. The hangup is this wifi card. I don't ant to spend all | day trying to get this piece of hardware working, unless I absolutely | have to. http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz That card is a prism2-based card. That means you need either the hostap or linux-wlan-ng drivers. I don't know as much about hostap because it doesn't support USB, which is the type of prism2 device I have. As for linux-wlan-ng, you either need a 2.4 kernel or you need to build a 0.2.1 prelease version of the drivers. Binary packages for the 2.4 kernels are available in debian, and Vineet Kumar has created an unofficial binary package for some 2.6 kernels (URL in the list archives). After loading the driver (module prism2_pci for linux-wlan-ng) you need to configure the interface with the parameters for associating with the access point. This could be as simple as putting the following in /etc/network/interfaces : iface wlan0 inet dhcp wireless_mode managed wireless_essid foo wireless_enc on wlan_ng_key0 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx I don't know if the net install cd will have that driver and the user tools available. The installation may just be easier with a cabled network card and then set up the wireless afterwards. Or you may find it helpful to put the card in your machine first so you can figure out how to make it work before doing the install in her machine. HTH, -D -- ...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver. --Daniel Pead www: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: NETGEAR MA311 802.11b Wireless PCI Network Adapter Card
Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am finding enough sites, to think it should be fairly straight forward, though not sure about the net install portion. For net install simply find the right module and load it (by switching to another virtual terminal (usually alt-f2 and alt-f1 to get back) or by choosing the go to shell option in the menu if there is one), then proceed to the part where you configure the network settings and the setup program should then have no problems. Note that if the net install cdrom doesn't include the right module, you're kind of out of luck :) Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NETGEAR MA311 802.11b Wireless PCI Network Adapter Card
I know this card is supported under Linux, and debian, but... What is involved in getting this card found/configured under Sarge? Specifically under the new net install cdrom? A lady friend is seriously considering letting me move her off of windos and onto debian. The hangup is this wifi card. I don't ant to spend all day trying to get this piece of hardware working, unless I absolutely have to. Thanks -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 pgpy2cW0akuTL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: NETGEAR MA311 802.11b Wireless PCI Network Adapter Card
Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know this card is supported under Linux, and debian, but... What is involved in getting this card found/configured under Sarge? Specifically under the new net install cdrom? Basically use google or whatever to find out what module (driver) is required and simply try out that module with: $ modprobe modulename if that works add modulename to /etc/modules if not, remove it with: $ modprobe -r modulename and try again. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NETGEAR MA311 802.11b Wireless PCI Network Adapter Card
On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 23:51:04 -0400 Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know this card is supported under Linux, and debian, but... What is involved in getting this card found/configured under Sarge? Specifically under the new net install cdrom? Basically use google or whatever to find out what module (driver) is required and simply try out that module with: $ modprobe modulename if that works add modulename to /etc/modules if not, remove it with: $ modprobe -r modulename and try again. Bijan Thanks.. I have been doing that.. The first wifi card I bought was not found, couldn't get it working, which is why I was asking. I am finding enough sites, to think it should be fairly straight forward, though not sure about the net install portion. -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 pgp5vrNW5rskF.pgp Description: PGP signature
