[TriLUG] Questions on wireless cards

[Ed Hill]

On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 13:48, Vestal, Roy L. wrote:
> Does anyone have experience with the NetGear wireless cards under Linux,
> esp. RedHat and Debian?


I've used NetGear's Prism-2-based MA401 and it has worked quite well
with both Red Hat 7.2 & 7.3 on my ThinkPad A22p.

In fact, pretty much every card employing a Prism-2 (or "Prism-2.5")
chipset has been fine with my RH 7.2-3 on my laptop.  I'll get a warning
message (see below) but the cards all function just *FINE*.  Good link
levels, good speeds, etc.

If you have problems using the MA401 card with Linux, get the newer
driver versions available at:

  http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/


hth,
Ed

===

The Prism-2 warning message:

  Aug 13 18:37:32 eddy cardmgr[606]: executing: './network start eth0'
  Aug 13 18:37:32 eddy kernel: wvlan_cs: Registered netdevice eth0
  Aug 13 18:37:32 eddy kernel: wvlan_cs: MAC address on eth0 is 00 90 d1
XX XX XX 
  Aug 13 18:37:32 eddy kernel: wvlan_cs: This is a PrismII card, not a
Wavelan IEEE card :-(
  Aug 13 18:37:32 eddy kernel: You may want report firmare revision
(0x7) and what the card support.
  Aug 13 18:37:32 eddy kernel: I will try to make it work, but you
should look for a better driver.
  Aug 13 18:37:32 eddy kernel: wvlan_cs: Found firmware 0x7 (vendor 6) -
Firmware capabilities : 1-0-0-0-1



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