[TriLUG] Questions on wireless cards

[David A. Cafaro]

Ed,

You might want to try the orinoco_cs driver instead (unless you compile
the wlan-ng one).  According to the pcmcia-cs people the orinoco_cs
driver is supposed to have better support for the Netgear MA401 over the
wvlan_cs.

http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS

You just have to change the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts line that says:

card "Intersil PRISM2 11 Mbps Wireless Adapter"
  manfid 0x0156, 0x0002
  bind "wvlan_cs"

to this:

card "Intersil PRISM2 11 Mbps Wireless Adapter"
  manfid 0x0156, 0x0002
  bind "orincoc_cs"


Cheers,
David

On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 16:56, Ed Hill wrote:
> 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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