i download the lastest driver vertion for linux of MA521.
when to make, it appears:
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storage size of 'rtl8180_pci_driver' isn't know
xxxxx error 1
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and i check this forum to find the followings: "duziq" has the same
situation with mine and seems that he made that finally. Unfortunately
duzip is unreachable.........
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mattheww:
Hi duziq
I'm lost too ... but I think your Makefile should point to the kernel headers (somewhere like /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include rather than the /usr/include)
Also I thought that ENDIAN_FLAGS = RTL_LITTLE_ENDIAN should be selected on 386 systems). If this doesn't help you, we can both wait for the 'sighted big guns to help'
Matt
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Cimmerian:
duziq, do you have the kernel-source for your running kernel installed? Like mattheww mentioned, you need to compile against the source of the same kernel as you are running, not against the headers in userland. If you have the kernel-source package installed, then maybe you need to make sure that the Makefile is pointing to the right directory.
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duziq:
cimmerian,
Thanks for clue regarding kernel-install package. That's what's missing!
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for i am a newbie here and for linux, i need get more detail info about how to deal with this problem.
if some one can , please!
my mail: kevinpan@operamail.com
thx again

I would highly recommend just ditching trying to get the Linux driver to work, it was 1/2 binary, throws system calls down a black-hole and has always been a mess to get to work with a post 2.4.21 kernel.

Might want to, and I hate recommending this but they work, a driver that wraps for the windows driver:

http://ndiswrapper.sf.net

Cheers,

Finegan

I have exactly the same problem as kevinpan.
#uname -r
2.4.18.14
redhat 8.0

...I'll try NdisWrapper

I am also having issues with the NetGear MA521 card. Works great on Windows XP. Same box, cratered and rebuilt on SUSE Linux 10.0 and it does not work.

The second issue I am having with these forums are that most of the links referenced in as places to go to get drivers no longer function. Very frustrating.

I have a Thinkpad T21 that I am using to test migrate myself off of Windows XP. When I install the NetGear MA521 card, and configure it, the only way I can get the card to work is when I turn ON my SSID broadcast on my wireless access point.

Beyond testing, that is NOT an option.

Encryption works. No problem there.

What can I do to get the NetGear MA521 to work?

Thanks,
Rade

Okay... got the MA521 to work. On the wireless card, I can get to the router (and call up the router configuration through Firefox).

iwconfig wlan0 ap nn:nn:nn:nn:nn:nn (where nn is the MAC address of the WLAN AP on the router)

did the trick.

Can ping the router. Router assigns DHCP address to PC. Tells it what kind of subnet it has. Does not update the DNS or gateway information.

Still digging...

If you can get it to work you'll have my congrats. I had the same card a while back when I had Slackware 9.1 and the 2.4.29 kernel. The most I got was 1)able to ping the router and 2)ifconfig wlan0 down caused a kernel crash. I ended up giving it to a friend and using my MA111 usb instead. Maybe the driver is better now in more recent kernels, but I didn't keep it long enough to find out.

I BE THERE!!!!!

Network: Mix / match of wired and wireless hardware. Given my semi-urban environment I use WEP and do not broadcast my SSID.

PC: IBM ThinkPad T21
Card: NetGear MA521

NDISWRAPPER, yes.

Commands (from super user command prompt)

1) iwconfig wlan0 ap nn:nn:nn:nn:nn:nn (the AP of the wireless router)

2) route add default gw nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn (the LAN configuration address of the router).

BINGO!!

Kopete popped right up, and my web browser now works fine!

Now... onto other matters.

Rade

I also forgot to mention that I am not using DHCP to set the DNS. I went into YaST, Network Services, and manually set my ISP's DNS servers through the DNS and Hostname services.

R

Scratch that. I forgot to turn the wlan0 back on again after a quick DHCP test. Did not have to set YaST got manual update. Picking up DNS just fine.

Rade