alright, when i run ifconfig eth0 up,
the return is eth0: unknown interface: No such device

Did you get the two happy beeps of it noticing the existence of the card? If so... what device name did it get in dmesg?

It might be eth1

Cheers,

Finegan

i get 2 happy beeps then one sad beep
and the device name is eth0

What is the goop in dmesg say about the card? Can you cut and paste from the laptop at all? I noticed a few typoes, are you typing all this stuff in by hand?

If so, make the test with the wireless card, pull it, pop in the wired card, yes linux is fine with doing this all hot, and then run dmesg or whatever else you need to and cut and paste this into browser... I just realized hom much of a headache all this is probably.

Cheers,

Finegan

i cant really do that right now, i can probabl do that later tonight
i might also be off tommorow, so ill see if i can do it then if not tonight

you know, right now i dont need this a whole lot. Ill just wait for a while. Thank you for you time.

I am having a similiar problem to roadkil34. I have followed this thread and have not been able to get my MA401RA up and running. Here are the steps I've done thus far:

1.
modprobe hermes - seems fine
modprobe orinoco - seems fine
modprobe orinoco_plx - returns this error message
/lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_plx.o: init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_plx.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_plx.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_plx.o: insmod orinoco_plx failed


2. Updated the /etc/pcmcia/config file with the information I get from /sbin/cardctl ident

Socket 0:
no product info available
Socket 1:
product info: "NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC", "Card", "ISL37300P", "Eval-RevA"
manfid: 0x000b, 0x7300
function: 6 (network)

3. I updated the drivers with three rpms from http://prism2.unix.guru.raleigh.nc.us The rpms added a few new files to the /etc/pcmcia directory

4. When I run ifconfig eth1 (eth0 is my lan nic card) I get:
eth1: unknown interface: No such device

5. When I pop the card out and replace it I get one happy beep and one sad boop.

6. lsmod returns:
Module Size Used by Not tainted
wvlan_cs 29152 0 (autoclean) (unused)
orinoco_cs 5896 0 (autoclean) (unused)
orinoco 36472 0 (autoclean) [orinoco_cs]
hermes 8196 0 (autoclean) [orinoco_cs orinoco]
i810_audio 25224 0 (autoclean)
ac97_codec 13384 0 (autoclean) [i810_audio]
soundcore 6532 2 (autoclean) [i810_audio]
autofs 13348 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ds 8712 4 [wvlan_cs orinoco_cs]
yenta_socket 12960 2
pcmcia_core 54784 0 [wvlan_cs orinoco_cs ds yenta_socket]
3c59x 30640 1
ipt_REJECT 3736 6 (autoclean)
iptable_filter 2412 1 (autoclean)
ip_tables 14936 2 [ipt_REJECT iptable_filter]
ide-scsi 10512 0
scsi_mod 107176 1 [ide-scsi]
ide-cd 33608 0
cdrom 33696 0 [ide-cd]
ohci1394 20108 0 (unused)
ieee1394 46892 0 [ohci1394]
mousedev 5524 2
keybdev 2976 0 (unused)
hid 22244 0 (unused)
input 5888 0 [mousedev keybdev hid]
usb-uhci 26188 0 (unused)
usbcore 77024 1 [hid usb-uhci]
ext3 70368 5
jbd 52212 5 [ext3]

7. dmesg does not apprear to return anything regarding pcmcia (it's pretty long to post - although that hasn't stopped my yet )

Any advice on where to go from here.
Thanks
CHM

The orinoco_plx module is for people with the MA301 PCI desktop adapter card.

The prism2 RPM installs the wlan-ng modules, an entirely different set of drivers than the orinocos. They also don't have the MA401RA on their conf file.

This module: wvlan_cs is the older prism1 adapter module, that cardmgr bound to your card because its stupid. Make certain the spacing and syntax of your patch is dead on and restart pcmcia. Just pulling the card doesn't get cardmgr to re-read the config file, you need to: /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart

Cheers,

Finegan

Thanks guys !

the discussion here and the following newsgroup discussion helped me to get MA401 running on RH8.0 with WEP !

http://groups.google.ca/groups?hl=en...ogle.com#link2

I registered just to say this, thanks again

I'm having an issue with my NIC (DLink).

Setup - Lynksys Router DHCP
3 Windows boxes successfully connected
1 Linux Redhat 8 that cannot.

I have connect once before succesfully. Now I can't get the card to go "active". I've reinstalled it too to no avail. I keep getting "cannot activate network device eth1".

I can ping 127.0.0.1 so I' pretty sure I'm not dealing with hardware failure.

What can I look at to see where the failure is occuring?

thx!

First off, what kind of Dlink card do you have? PCI? PCMCIA?

If its a PCI card, what's the output of:

/sbin/lspci

If its a PCMCIA card, what's the output of:

/sbin/cardctl ident

Dlink's DWL-650+ is a TI chipset that is almost wholey unsupported by Linux (due to TI refusing to release a single spec). The DWL-650 is a prism2 card and works under a number of drivers. The exact same is true for the DWL-520+ and the DWL-520 respectively.

Cheers,

Finegan

output from /sbin/lspci

D-link System INC. RTL8139 Ethernet (rev10).

i have MA401 with a MA301 adapter:
this did it:
$ cat /etc/rc.d/rc.local
#!/bin/sh
#
# /etc/rc.d/rc.local: Local system initialization script.
#
# Put any local setup commands in here:
modprobe prism2_plx
wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable
wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_autojoin ssid=Wireless authtype=opensystem
ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.7 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 255.255.255.0
route add default gw 192.168.0.1

Hey guyz,

Was looking into setting up Linux as a HostAP on a p2 300mhz desktop. My question is should I get the netgear MA311 pci card or MA301 and MA401 combo. I'm leaning towards the combo just so I could have the pullout pcmcia card for my laptop if I ever I wanted to ever experiment with wardriving. (My other card is a compaq WL110, so I would like a prism card as well for my laptop
I've been looking at many threads for a week now and still cant decide. Will I run into more problems with one or the other setup?
Also will I have all the same features with either one, once I did get it setup. And lastly, these 2 setups should work right?, meaning that didnt change chipsets or anything?

Anyhelp would be appreciated.

Btw, I am fairly comfortable with Linux and installing rpms, & using ./configure make & make install but but have yet to recompile the kernel.
I have Red Hat 8.0 (2.4.18-14),

Also I noticed on the table that the recent versions are "Amtel based" How do I know what to look for when looking for the Prism based ones? Is the MA311NA the same as a MA311..

Just getting the correct hardware is a pain, not to mention setting it up LOL

Please someone help..any suggestions would be greatful

MMS