Re: netgear MA401

[Jason Kraftcheck <kraftche@cae.wisc.edu>]

J. Volkmann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to get a netgear MA 401 to work on a toshiba 3000-512.
>
> I had it running once, but I killed the kernel modules so I have to do
> it again. Unfortunately I do not recognize what I did back then.
> To remove it, I deleted the /lib/modules and the /etc/pcmcia and
> reinstalled the packages named pcmcia-source and wireless-tools.
>
> What I tried until now:
> 1. Compiling a 2.4.20 with the following options:
> CONFIG_PCMCIA=y
> CONFIG_CARDBUS=y
> CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y
> CONFIG_HERMES=m
> CONFIG_PLX_HERMES=m
> CONFIG_PCMCIA_HERMES=m
> CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS=y
> CONFIG_NET_PCMCIA=y
> CONFIG_NET_PCMCIA_RADIO=y
> Should work if I understood right? But it doesn't. The cardmgr doesn't
> even loed any modules automatically?

I recently had a similar problem.  My problem was that I was compiling the 
kernel without support for the ISA bus (I don't have any ISA devices.) 
The old PC card bus that the MA 401 uses is ISA based, and doesn't work 
without ISA support.