I need help. I posted this question in the networking and wireless networking forums, but no one responded. I have a Netgear WG311T wireless card on a Debian Sarge machine running kernel 2.6.8-2-686, and have wireless-tools installed. Someone set this card up originally for me and had this wireless card working. I did a re-installation of Debian today when I replaced my hard drive, and can't seem to get the card up. It was originally installed with the Linuxant drivers, but was under the 30-day trial. I just downloaded and installed the madwifi drivers with cvs. Here is the madwifi directory:
neuromancer:~# cd madwifi
neuromancer:~/madwifi# ls -al
total 50
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 1024 2005-05-31 21:27 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 1024 2005-05-31 21:27 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 2005-05-31 21:27 ath
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 2005-05-31 21:27 ath_hal
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 1024 2005-05-31 21:27 ath_rate
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2073 2005-02-16 06:09 COPYRIGHT
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2005-05-31 21:27 CVS
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 2005-05-31 21:27 driver
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 2005-05-31 21:27 hal
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 2005-05-31 21:27 include
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5091 2005-02-16 11:08 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6033 2005-05-20 02:56 Makefile.inc
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 2048 2005-05-31 21:27 net80211
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 2005-05-31 21:27 patches
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18990 2005-02-22 09:17 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1985 2005-02-16 11:08 release.h
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 2005-05-31 21:27 tools
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 2005-05-31 21:27 wlan
neuromancer:~/madwifi#
The card is detected during the detection phase of bootup and I can see the card with lspci:
neuromancer:~# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
0000:00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
0000:00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-724F [DS-1 Audio Controller] (rev 03)
0000:00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV4 [RIVA TNT] (rev 04)
neuromancer:~#
The Atheros ethernet controller is the wireless card. But ifconfig gives me the following:
neuromancer:~# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:8B:2F:E1
inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:baff:fe8b:2fe1/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1183 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1174 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:729099 (712.0 KiB) TX bytes:206940 (202.0 KiB)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x1400
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:26890 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:26890 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4711535 (4.4 MiB) TX bytes:4711535 (4.4 MiB)
neuromancer:~#
and iwconfig provides the following:
neuromancer:~# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
neuromancer:~#
I have tried to bring up the card following numerous threads in the HCL for setting up this card, but I do not know what else to do to get Debian to see the card. I am assuming that sit0 is the card, but Debian does not know what it is?
I appreciate any help I can get on this, this is the first time that I have tried to get this card working by myself. I hope I provided enough info, please let me know if I have not.
Thanks,
