Cant seem to be able to get my MA401 to work in Linux Mandrake 9.1 I reformatted my Redhat 8 and replaced it with Mandrake 9.1. My Netgear MA401RA was working under Redhat 8. I copied the modules.conf and ifcfg-eth1 files but still no worky. When I try insmod orinoco_cs I get a lot of unresolved symbols. card ident does not work. Pcmcia is running though

a snip of dmesg:
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1f.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1f.5
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xe29e1800, 00:00:e2:7e:64:e6, IRQ 10
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
hermes.c: 4 Jul 2002 David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Linux Kernel Card Services Kernel Version
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
ds: no socket drivers loaded!
unloading Kernel Card Services
inserting floppy driver for 2.4.21-0.13mdk
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
eth0: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 45e1.
hermes.c: 4 Jul 2002 David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Linux Kernel Card Services Kernel Version
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
ds: no socket drivers loaded!
unloading Kernel Card Services
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.24, 15:29:58 Mar 14 2003
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:1f.5
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1f.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:05.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.5 to 64
i810: Intel ICH2 found at IO 0xb400 and 0xb000, MEM 0x0000 and 0x0000, IRQ 10
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
i810_audio: Resetting connection 0
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ALG16 (ALC200/200P)
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 supports AMAP, total channels = 2
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann


Thanks

I realize that coming from Redhat you would have probably expected the redhat tools to be around. You *might* be able to get these tools in RPM format and install them. However...

Hint for getting comfortable with Mandrake:
- most of the configurations in Mandrake should be done using a family of tools known as 'drak' tools. Their names start with 'drak'. Of these tools, 'drakconf' provides a uniform framework for accessing/configuring almost every aspect of your computer.

Here is what I did to get MA401RA working with MDK9.1 on my laptop (NOTE: This may or may not work when using a PCI adaptor card in a desktop):
- (in your case, see if you can replace /etc/modules.conf with the original one. You wouldn't have to tamper with this)
- pop the card in
- start 'drakconf' as root. Start this from a console so that you can see the messages during configuration
- Goto to the network setup section
- Click on the 'network setup wizard' (and choose autodetection + expert mode)
- your PCMCIA card should be detected now (along with any other NIC's in your system). Yes, the driver should be orinoco but you card will be listed explicitly as MA401.
- Now you should be presented with a window where you can enter the ESSID and enctryption keys etc. If you have multiple NIC's you'll get a configuration window for each device.
- I chose DHCP for my wifi NIC and also entered the encryption key that is generated by my accesspoint. I left the connection type to "Managed". I left all the other fields blank.
- When you accept these changes, the tool will cycle your network connection and you should see corresponding 'stop'/'start' messages in the console.
- Hopefully you got an 'ok' for the start part.

That's it.
Hope this helps.

-Thas

oops wrong post