[ale] WORKING! Re: [ale] Netgear MA401 wireless card - which driver?

[Joseph A. Knapka]

Fulton Green wrote:
> 
> 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.

I got mine working, on kernel 2.4.19 with the external
pcmcia-cs package, not kernel pcmcia support, and linux-wlan.
It was a bit confusing, but not too bad.

-- Joe

> 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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