Getting wireless USB adaptor (Netgear MA111) working with Fedora 3

oneone@gmail.com · *nix forums beginner Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 4

Hello,

I started with a fresh install of Fedora 3. Got kernel 2.6.10 and
compiled it successfully. New kernel worked fine after removing CUPS
from startup. Got linux-wlan-ng version 0.2.1-pre26 and successfully
built and installed it.

I edited all these files:

/etc/wlan/wlan.conf
/etc/wlan/wlancfg-myssid
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0

But when I type "ifconfig" I only get a listing for "lo" there is no
wlan0 interface.

Any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks.

larwe@larwe.com · *nix forums beginner Joined: 07 Aug 2005 Posts: 13

oneone@gmail.com · *nix forums beginner Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 4

I can do a modprobe prism2_usb and get no error.

Everything seems to have loaded. How can I check for sure?

larwe@larwe.com wrote:

larwe@larwe.com · *nix forums beginner Joined: 07 Aug 2005 Posts: 13

oneone@gmail.com · *nix forums beginner Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 4

p80211 is there, I can also modprobe it. Neither produces any output
to dmesg.

When I grep modules.usbmap for "prism2_usb" I see lots of entries with
various hex #s.

larwe@larwe.com wrote:

larwe@larwe.com · *nix forums beginner Joined: 07 Aug 2005 Posts: 13

If neither of those are producing dmesg output then they aren't loading
right.

Plug in the adapter. Check /proc/bus/usb/devices to see what the VID
and PID are (Vendor=xxxx Prod=xxxx). Look in modules.usbmap and see if
that PID/VID combo is mentioned there. If it isn't, that's why the
module isn't autoloading and it also explains why the module isn't
working when you manually load it.

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