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really need a hand with that. I've tried several things to make my new MA401 card. I've tried the instruction of NETGEAR.COM (only for RH 7.3). Didn't work.
Looked at all the messages, nothing is working.
The documentation of NetGear talks about a device named WLAN0 but the URL. The also speak of a file named ws-lang.opts but I don't have it.
I compiled my Kernel with turning on all the options for the Wireless card.
When I tried ifconfig, there's no WLAN0. There's a ETH0 but It is for my on-board ethernet.
A great alternative to the prism2 driver is the orinoco_cs driver, especially for the Netgear card. You should use the latest version of orinoco_cs if you choose to do that (0.13a or later).
This assumes you have the orinoco drivers installed and pcmcia installed... most likely you do since I did.
I rebooted but I don't think you have too... Make sure you get two beeps instead of a beep then bonk.
Then goto the Internet Configuration Wizard and add a wireless connection. You should now have the option to chose the Lucent wireless card choice. Use that one.. Set up what device you want to use.. I chose eth1. You should be good to go.
De-lurking for a minute to say that this forum, members & information have helped me immensely! I am writing this via RedHat 8.0 with a NetGear MA401RA after dozens of false starts. FWIW The ESSID agreement was a crucial item for me.
I am still curious as to the necessity of /etc/pcmcia/hermes.conf but I am not going to mess with success.
I think the system reads the /etc/pcmcia/config. Inside /etc/pcmcia/config is line that includes other *.conf files in the /etc/pcmcia directory. i.e. "source ./*.conf"
You'd create the hermes.conf file if you didn't want to edit the config file, although you could just as easily use the hermes.conf lines inside the config file.
Did you select "managed" mode for the card? Selecting "ad-hoc" could cause problems. (Edit the entry for your card under the "Devices" tab in neat, then check the "Wireless Settings" tab.)
Another problem could be the ESSID of your access point.
Look in the network configuration thingy. From there you should be able to set the SSID of your network. The error 110 Tx error is a bug somewhere in the firmare of all our cards. The orinoco guys are still pulling their hair out cuz they can't find the problem. No one wants to cooperate with Linux.
Look at the commands iwconfig *I think* or ifconfig. It's something like that. From one of those commands you can set the SSID, channel, freq. etc.
Sorry can't help much more. I got lucky and was able to connect the Netgear card after editing the one config file.
This worked great for me, thank you very much for the info. I did have to reboot before it worked but I appreciate you putting this info out there. Now I'm able to get all this done on my wireless net.
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Originally posted by rmartine Hey there.. I also have a Netgear MA401RA card running on RedHat 8.0. This is how you make it work.
Open the file /etc/pcmcia/config
Add these lines to it.. somewhere in the wireless devices section to maintain some consistency.. it's buried around 500 lines or so.
This assumes you have the orinoco drivers installed and pcmcia installed... most likely you do since I did.
I rebooted but I don't think you have too... Make sure you get two beeps instead of a beep then bonk.
Then goto the Internet Configuration Wizard and add a wireless connection. You should now have the option to chose the Lucent wireless card choice. Use that one.. Set up what device you want to use.. I chose eth1. You should be good to go.
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