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Re: NETGEAR MA311 802.11b Wireless PCI Network Adapter Card



On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 08:40:55PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
| I know this card is supported under Linux, and debian, but...
| 
| What is involved in getting this card found/configured under Sarge?
| Specifically under the new net install cdrom?
| 
| A lady friend is seriously considering letting me move her off of windos
| and onto debian. The hangup is this wifi card. I don't ant to spend all
| day trying to get this piece of hardware working, unless I absolutely
| have to.

http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz

That card is a prism2-based card.  That means you need either the
hostap or linux-wlan-ng drivers.  I don't know as much about hostap
because it doesn't support USB, which is the type of prism2 device I
have.  As for linux-wlan-ng, you either need a 2.4 kernel or you need
to build a 0.2.1 prelease version of the drivers.  Binary packages for
the 2.4 kernels are available in debian, and Vineet Kumar has created
an unofficial binary package for some 2.6 kernels (URL in the list
archives).

After loading the driver (module prism2_pci for linux-wlan-ng) you
need to configure the interface with the parameters for associating
with the access point.  This could be as simple as putting the
following in /etc/network/interfaces :
    iface wlan0 inet dhcp
        wireless_mode   managed
        wireless_essid  foo
        wireless_enc on
        wlan_ng_key0 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

I don't know if the net install cd will have that driver and the user
tools available.  The installation may just be easier with a cabled
network card and then set up the wireless afterwards.  Or you may find
it helpful to put the card in your machine first so you can figure out
how to make it work before doing the install in her machine.

HTH,
-D

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meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver."
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