Drivers for Netgear MA111

alkos333 · 01-21-2007, 12:58 AM

I'm running kernel 2.6.19.1 and Slackware 11. I got a new wireless card USB-based device: Netgear MA111 (prism2 chipset, 80211b support). I downloaded linux-wlan-ng-0.2.7 from linux-wlan.com, compiled and installed it. Then I simply followed the README from linux-wlan-ng-0.2.27:

Added 'alias wlan0 prism2_usb' to /etc/modprobe.conf
Added 'modprobe prism2_usb' to /etc/rc.d/rc.modules

When I run 'wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable', I get the following:

Code:

wlanctl-ng: No such device

Note: driver modules load just fine on the boot, but I can't bring up wlan0 interface. I tried uncommenting lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf to assign wlan0 and stuff, but still no luck. Here are some stats:

lsusb:

Code:

[root@alkos333:/home/me/software/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.7# lsusb
Bus 4 Device 1: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 3 Device 1: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 1 Device 1: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 5 Device 1: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 5 Device 2: ID 0483:2016 SGS Thomson Microelectronics Fingerprint Reader
Bus 2 Device 2: ID 045e:0053 Microsoft Corp. 
Bus 2 Device 1: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 2 Device 3: ID 0846:4230 NetGear, Inc. MA111 WiFi

lsmod:

Code:

root@alkos333:/home/me# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
i915                   22016  1 
drm                    71060  2 i915
ohci_hcd               22404  0 
snd_seq_oss            34816  0 
snd_seq_device          9992  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq_midi_event     10240  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                51120  4 snd_seq_oss,snd
_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss            45088  0 
snd_mixer_oss          18944  1 snd_pcm_oss
prism2_usb             74244  0 
p80211                 30988  1 prism2_usb
tun                    12544  0 
ipw3945               188448  1 
snd_hda_intel          20632  0 
snd_hda_codec         165808  1 snd_hda_intel
ieee80211              45800  1 ipw3945
snd_pcm                74244  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd
_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
intel_agp              24860  1 
snd_timer              23044  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
ieee80211_crypt         9088  1 ieee80211
agpgart                32328  3 drm,intel_agp
snd_page_alloc         11784  2 snd_hda_intel,s
nd_pcm
ehci_hcd               30600  0

Any ideas?

tobyl · 01-22-2007, 02:13 PM

I'm only going by what I have read by googling, but think you need to examine the device and any associated documents to see what version you have. Apparently there is a MA111v2 with a SiS chip in it. You may need to take it back or try ndiswrapper.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=330809

tobyl

alkos333 · 01-22-2007, 07:21 PM

I remember that when I was installing drivers for it in windows, I had to use v2 drivers because v1 didn't work, so I guess I do have v2. I'm probably going to return it because I need prism2 chipset which supports packet injection.