[ale] Netgear MA401 wireless card - which driver?

Fulton Green ale at FultonGreen.com
Wed Aug 28 11:33:29 EDT 2002


I'm facing a similar problem. I just bought a Linksys WPC11 card, which is
supposed to work with the wvlan_cs driver, but doesn't (at least under the
latest official Red Hat kernel). If you're brave, try grabbing the latest
code from the Linux WLAN project ( www.Linux-WLAN.com ) which is
specifically geared towards Prism-based cards such as ours, compile, and
give that a go.

On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 09:24:03AM -0600, Joseph A. Knapka wrote:
> I've got a Netgear MA401 wireless card, which has worked
> flawlessly in my laptop using the wvlan_cs driver for
> months. Reinstalled Slackware, and now cardmgr wants to
> bind the orinoco_cs driver to this card, which doesn't
> work for some reason. (The card's "link" light flashes,
> which appears to mean it can't talk to the AP.) I tried
> re-binding the card to the wvlan_cs driver in
> /etc/pcmcia/config, but the results are even worse -
> sometimes the machine locks up solid, other times
> cardmgr says "Initialization failed!"

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