On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 04:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm in Windoz right now because I still can't use the Netgear MA401 > wireless with Linux. So, I can't thank whoever sent me info on where to > find drivers for the card because that email is in my Linux partition...
I've found it best to stick with 0.1.14 version of the drivers from ftp://ftp.linux-wlan.org/pub/linux-wlan-ng/linux-wlan-ng-0.1.14.tar.gz Here's some instructions which get me through Select the pcmcia source as appropriate to your system (rpm -qa | grep pcmcia) rpm -ivh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/current/en/os/i386/SRPMS/kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.xx-y.rpm Ensure you have the correct kernel-source installed (rpm -qa | grep kernel) rpm -ivh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/current/en/os/i386/kernel-source-2.4.18-xx.i386.rpm tar xvfz /usr/redhat/SOURCES/pcmcia-cs-3.1.xx.tar.gz cd pcmcia-cs-3.1.xx ./Configure[1] cd .. tar xvfz linux-wlan-ng-0.1.14.tar.gz cd linux-wlan-ng-0.1.14 ./Configure[3] make all make install cp config /etc/pcmcia (http://www.mellon-collie.net:81/config) cp ifcfg-wlan0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts [4] (http://www.mellon-collie.net:81/ifcfg-wlan0) vi /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.opts[5] service pcmcia restart[6] [1] Use defaults Ensure module dir is /lib/modules/2.4.18-xx/ [3] Use default - but build for kernel pcmcia Ensure module dir is /lib/modules/2.4.18-xx/ Ignore error about kernel source being for ...... [4] Edit your network interface. [5] Enable WEP: Line 83, 105 WEP Keys: 95-98 (set 128bit on line 91) SSID on line 108 [6] It should work now -- NAME : Adam Allen. EMAIL : [EMAIL PROTECTED] COMMENT : ~~~~ insert your favourite signature comment here ~~~~ PGP : http://search.keyserver.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=adam%40dynamicinteraction.co.uk
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