Netgear 311 : everything fine but card not accessible [debian]
 

Hi,

Ok there is a lot about this card, but nothing to solve my problem.

So, let me give you my system answers to my queries :
Unplugged
toshi:/home/denis# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
mrv8ka51 driver present
now plugged
toshi:/home/denis# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
mrv8ka51 driver present, hardware present
toshi:/home/denis# ifconfig wlan0 up
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: Aucun périphérique de ce type

toshi:/home/denis# ndiswrapper-buginfo
gives that :
utils:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15188 2005-04-10 21:38 /sbin/loadndisdriver
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20544 2005-03-05 02:51 /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper
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kernel:
Linux version 2.6.8-2-686 (horms@tabatha.lab.ultramonkey.org) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-12)) #1 Thu May 19 17:53:30 JST 2005
kernel sources are in /lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/build
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gcc --version:
gcc (GCC) 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Ce logiciel est libre; voir les sources pour les conditions de copie. Il n'y a PAS
GARANTIE; ni implicite pour le MARCHANDAGE ou pour un BUT PARTICULIER.

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installed drivers:
/etc/ndiswrapper:
total 2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 693 2006-01-28 19:51 modules.ndiswrapper
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2005-12-22 14:22 mrv8ka51

/etc/ndiswrapper/mrv8ka51:
total 284
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 717 2005-12-22 14:22 11AB:1FA6.5.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 717 2005-12-22 14:22 11AB:1FA7:1043:108F.5.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 717 2005-12-22 14:22 11AB:1FA7:1043:128F.5.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 717 2005-12-22 14:22 11AB:1FA7:1043:138E.5.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 717 2005-12-22 14:22 11AB:1FA7:1043:138F.5.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 717 2005-12-22 14:22 11AB:1FA7:2A1B:103C.5.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 717 2005-12-22 14:22 11AB:1FA7.5.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22220 2005-12-22 14:22 mrv8ka51.inf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 258560 2005-12-22 14:22 mrv8ka51.sys
Reloading ndiswrapper...
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-7664 Wed May 25 10:47:55 PDT 2005
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 - driver resynched.
ndiswrapper version 1.1 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=no)

Any suggestion ?

Thanks a lot.

Dude, I think you forgot to load the module into the kernel.

I wrote documentation on how to install my Netgear card.

http://studentweb.usq.edu.au/home/W0009132/docs/

Scroll down to Ubuntu (Should be very close to your Debian problem).

Hi,

You are write itis working now. It is so simple. I am sorry but heven didn't had the idea that after launching ndiswraper there where something else to do.
If I understand well, and excuse my ignorance :
ndiswrapper -m build a link for the kernel to say : If the device known by this driver is present then it is the wlan0 interface for the network. Is that correct ?

Now I just have to configure it (mean wlan0)? I defined the IP adress, mask and passerel (same as for eth0, I don't think it should be different). I will check that on the net.

Thanks very much for this.

Denis