BAD LUCK!! netgear w/ slack through USB

fracturedsage · 09-26-2003, 09:31 AM

I got the worst luck ever. It couldn't have been any more complicated. I have never done a network in linux before, and to get my broadband I have to connect through a lan. WAIT! OH NO! it couldn't have been that easy could it? no, i couldn't. I have to do it through a wireless network. Netgear MA101. Wait, no it's still not that easy. My netgear only connects through USB..... Could someone help me out? Im using Slackware 9. Thanks for your time.

trickykid · 09-26-2003, 09:49 AM

Read this thread.. most likely has your solution there as the member posted his findings and success in getting it to work.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...950#post187950

fracturedsage · 09-26-2003, 01:36 PM

Thanks for your link.
http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.n...o/howto-5.html
It helped a lot. I installed the driver with out issue. The the trouble comes when I want to find the alias of my MA101 card. I have revision B. And when i do
# modprobe usbvnetr
#
It works fine then the tutorial tells me to type lsmod to see if the driver is loaded, and according to lsmod it is (below)

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
usbvnetr               76280   0  (unused)
ehci-hcd               14632   0  (unused)
i810-tco                3088   0  (unused)
i810_audio             21160   0  (unused)
ac97_codec              9512   0  [i810_audio]
soundcore               3332   2  [i810_audio]
pcmcia_core            38112   0 
ide-scsi                8048   0 
uhci                   24560   0  (unused)
usbcore                58144   1  [usbvnetr ehci-hcd uhci]
ntfs                   51040   1  (autoclean)

Then the tutorial says to plug in the MA101 and run dmesg. This is what I see.

Code:

usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:02.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.0 to 64
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xff80, IRQ 11
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:1d.1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.1 to 64
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xff60, IRQ 10
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:1d.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:1f.1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.2 to 64
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xff40, IRQ 9
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
  options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Intel PCIC probe: not found.
Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found.
ds: no socket drivers loaded!
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.21, 15:37:49 Mar 11 2003
PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:1f.5
PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 00:1f.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 01:05.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 01:09.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.5 to 64
i810: Intel ICH4 found at IO 0xedc0 and 0xee00, IRQ 3
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x4144:0x5374 (Unknown)
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 supports AMAP, total channels = 2
i810 TCO timer, v0.05: timer margin: 30 sec (0x0860) (nowayout=0)
i810_rng: RNG not detected
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:1d.7
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.7 to 64
hcd.c: ehci-hcd @ 00:1d.7, Intel Corp. 82801DB USB EHCI Controller
hcd.c: irq 5, pci mem c8888800
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
ehci-hcd.c: restricting 64bit DMA mappings to segment 0 ...
ehci-hcd.c: USB 2.0 support enabled, EHCI rev 1. 0
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 6 ports detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 15:38:38 Mar 11 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: registered new driver usbvnetr
hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.2-2, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x864/0x4102) is not claimed by any active driver.

(I cut out some of the stuff that had nothing to do with the USB devices)

This is what the tutorial says I should see...

Code:

hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2, assigned device number 6
usb.c: USB device 6 (vend/prod 0x864/0x4100) is not claimed by any active driver.
usb.c: registered new driver usbvnet
usb_vnet_probe: usb vendor/product=864/4100
vnet_kernel.c: Reseting Usb Device

vnet_kernel.c: Reset completed.
Reg Domain
usbvnet: driver version 1.0.1.101, compiled Dec 22 2002 09:55:44 (dbg_mask x0)
MAC addr 00:30:AB:0F:xx:xx firmware 0.90.0.44
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
Multicast is enabled
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
divert: freeing divert_blk for eth1
vnetusba.c: usb eth1 initialized and registered

Mine doesn't give an allias. Why? How can I fix this? Thanks for your help.

fracturedsage · 09-29-2003, 02:30 PM

Hello? Any one?

fracturedsage · 10-01-2003, 09:06 AM

OKay, I figured out the problem. It was the fact that I needed to add my products Vend/ID to the config file. It wasn't included. So now it picks it up.