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Re: NETGEAR MA311 802.11b Wireless PCI Network Adapter Card



On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 12:08:35 +0200
Frederik Dannemare <frederik@dannemare.net> wrote:

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> On Thursday 08 July 2004 15:46, Frederik Dannemare wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 July 2004 05:40, 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.
> >
> > Don't know how the new installer handles wifi, but this is more or
> > less what you should do to get the netgear ma311 working:
> >
> > apt-get install hostap-utils hostap-source wireless-tools hotplug
> > echo "alias wlan0 hostap_cs" >/etc/modutils/hostap 
> 
> Should have said _pci, not _cs. Thus:
> echo "alias wlan0 hostap_pci" >/etc/modutils/hostap
> 
> > update-modules
> >
> > Ensure that you have a wlan0 section in /etc/network/interfaces...
> >
> > iwconfig wlan0 essid foobar
> > iwconfig wlan0 mode managed
> 
> Did you get it to work, btw?
> - -- 
> Frederik Dannemare | mailto:frederik@dannemare.net

Actually I missed the first reply to this message, not sure how or why..
I know have this email printed out so I can try.

Thanks

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