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I have a NetGear MA101 USB 802.11b network adapter, and I'm trying to get it to work on my older Dell running Fedora Core 2. I am completly new to Linux and I have no clue where to find drivers, and how to install them. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Welcome to linux and LinuxQuestions.org. A few outputs will help people here on the forum get you started. Open a command window and, as root (su followed by the password) run the following commands:
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lspci
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ifconfig
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iwconfig
Then post back the outputs. Just write them to a text file or something if you dont already have connectivity in linux. It looks like your card has the atmel chipset but it would be nice to confirm this. The first command will do so.
Regards
Chris
Oh crud. My mistake. You have a USB adapter. You will therefore need to run and output lsusb to get the chipset. Make sure you do this when its been plugged in. Before doing another cd burn and outputting again, make sure you can see something that probably resembles your wireless adapter in the list. Sorry dude.
lsusb:
[root@localhost root]# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04f2:0002 Chicony Electronics Co. , Ltd NT68P81 Keyboard
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0864:4102 NetGear, Inc. MA101 802.11b Adapter
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
I'm confused on the install process.
I ran the folder in Terminal and used # make install.
This appears in the terminal:
Kernel seems to have 4K size stack option (CONFIG_4KSTACKS) removed; many Windows drivers will need at least 8K size stacks. You should read wiki about 4K size stack issue. Don't complain about crashes until you resolve this.
I don't even know what the kernel is. I tried searching around the wiki and didnt find anything about stacks.
After the error comes, some processes happen so I guess the driver stuff is working.
Output the errors if you can. As luck would have it I'm going through a Fedora Core 3 install at the moment. The kernel stack size is a warning. Only pay attention to it if you get instability issues when connected.
Kernel seems to have 4K size stack option (CONFIG_4KSTACKS) removed; many Windows drivers will need at least 8K size stacks. You should read wiki about 4K size stack issue. Don't complain about crashes until you resolve this.
Thats all I get. But after the stuff is done, I don't know where to go from there.
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