On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 06:53:59AM -0700, Rusty Carruth wrote: > Ok, I'm playing with a friends Netgear WG511 card under Sarge/kernel 2.6.
I don't have a WG511 to verify this with, but prism54.org's supported cards list[0] shows your card with 'perfect' status. That suggests to me that it should work (even in scan mode). [0]http://prism54.org/supported_cards.php > It seems to be detected by the kernel as prism54 (when I plug it in I get: > kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:09:00.0 (0000 -> 0002) kernel: ACPI: PIC > interrupt 0000:09:00.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 pci.agent[10191]: > prism54: already loaded This looks fine to me. > The two LEDs on the card do not light. Who knows -- sometimes LEDs mean things, other times they don't. Could be a bad sign, though. > when I run AirSnort, it doesn't see anything (now, I may not be in range of > my neighbor across the street running a wireless setup, so I may actually be > working - or maybe he's not using the same band, or whatever). > (Unfortunately, I do not have a wireless hub here, I'm just trying to get > his card to work to see if I can do it and prove (to him) that I don't need > the silly windows drivers from Netgear to get the pcmcia card to work > (assuming that's possible ;-)) Having a wireless access point would make debugging your issue much easier; that said, your card should be supported by most recent 2.6 kernels. Which kernel (exactly) are you running? What's the output of: $ uname -r Have you installed all the wireless packages: wireless-tools, hotplug, pciutils? > Has anyone gotten a netgear wg511 with prism54 to work in scan mode under > debian? If not, I think I'm going to give up and get to looking for > something that works - enough of this 'prove stuff' mode ;-) Tools like airsnort (and Kismet) need the card to be in 'monitor' mode. IIRC, airsnort/kismet require certain cards to be *manually* put into monitor mode before your actually run the app (they can automatically change modes only for certain chipsets...I forget which). With my ath-based D-Link card, I do the following: $ sudo iwconfig ath0 mode monitor $ kismet My kernel: $ uname -r 2.6.10-5-386 Hope that helps- -- o-------------------------------{ Will Maier }-------------------------------o | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | + [EMAIL PROTECTED] | + [EMAIL PROTECTED] | *--------[ Debian: The Universal Operating System (www.debian.org) ]---------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
