Hi all,

I know that there were dicussions about installing the Netgear Wireless NIC MA311 on RedHat before. I know that I should do

modprobe orinoco_pci

to insert the driver into the kernel. However, I'm using RedHat Enterprise Linux ES and and it said

modprobe: Can't locate module orinoco_pci

I'm wondering if there's any site that provides an RPM package or source code for the orinoco driver. Or, is there a driver other than orinoco_pci.o that would work on the MA311 Wireless NIC? Thanks a lot!

look to see if you have the kernel source, probably under /usr/src

go down a few directories and look for "drivers/net/" ... it should be in there

if you don't have the drivers in there, then look on google for a download site...

I found this one site just now that describes someone else installing the wireless card... http://stevewatts.com/computers/pc4/#wlan-ng

HTH,

-Ed.

I managed to enable the wireless PCI adapter by doing the following:

Downloaded the driver “linux-wlan-ng-0.1.15.tar.gz” from AbsoluteValue Systems at "http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/" and unzipped it by

tar zxvf linux-wlan-ng-0.1.15.tar.gz

In the directory “linux-wlan-ng-0.1.15”, configured the linux-wlan-ng package by

make config

There were a number of questions to answer:

“Build Prism2.x PCMCIA Card Services (_cs) driver?”: n
“Build Prism2 PLX9052 based PCI (_plx) adapter driver?”: n
“Build Prism2.5 native PCI (_pci) driver?”: y
“Build Prism2.5 USB (_usb) driver?”: n
“Linux source directory”: /usr/src/linux-2.4
“Alternate target install root directory on host”: (nothing)
“Module install directory”: /lib/modules/2.4.9-e.12
“Prefix for build host compiler? (rarely needed)”: (nothing)
“Build for debugging (see doc/config.debug)”: n

After answering all the above questions, the package was built by

make all

and installed by

make install (as root)

To enable the wireless NIC at boot time, include a start script in the /etc/rc.d/init.d directory. I did so by

cp /linux-wlan-ng-0.1.15/etc/rc.wlan /etc/rc.d/init.d

and created a symbolic link by

cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d
ln –s ../init.d/rc.wlan S09wlan

Next, I added the following line to /etc/modules.conf

alias wlan0 prism2_pci

and created the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 with the following contents

DEVICE = wlan0
ONBOOT= yes
BOOTPROTO = dhcp

Finally, in the /etc/wlan.conf file, I set

DesiredSSID=”Wireless”
SSID=”Wireless”

The wireless was up and running as the machine was rebooted. Hope that this can help somebody who has the same problem as mine