I've been searching around for quite a few hours and I'm not able to find any helpful information on this problem. I've tried to only include directly relevant information. I hope that by doing so I didn't skip anything.

Muchas Gracias in advance to anyone who can help me with this.



Hardware: (Hyperlinks direct you to device LQ HCL page)

Compaq Presario 731US (731, 700, 7xx) http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/sh...hp?product=972

USB UHCI (VIA 82cxxx chipset)
Netgear MA111 usb (vend/prod 0x846/0x4110) http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/sh...p?product=1092


Software: (Hyperlinks direct you to more info)

Gentoo 2.4.25
linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20.ebuild
net-wireless/wireless-config-0.4.6.ebuild http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.p...er=asc&start=0
wireless-tools.ebuild (iwconfig)


Kernel Options for "Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)":

CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y
CONFIG_HERMES=m (not sure if this is necessary)
CONFIG_PLX_HERMES=m
CONFIG_PCI_HERMES=m
CONFIG_PCMCIA_HERMES=m
CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS=y


Other Important Info:

/proc/net/wireless does exist
iwconfig: wlan0 no wireless extensions
lsusb: Bus 001 Device 003 ID 0846:4110 Netgear, Inc
lsmod: (mod, used, by)
prism2_usb 0
p80211 0 [Prism2_usb]
usb-uhci 0 (unused)
usbcore 1 [prism2_usb usb-uhci]