Configuring Wireless MA311 PCI Card On Debian Woody

When I do an ifconfig, I get the following:

lo ...

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:5B:91:59:61
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:16800 (16.4 KiB)
Interrupt:5 Memory:d3ab1000-d3ab2000

I don't have an ip address. I have an ma311 PCI card (which has the
prism chipset) and a no-name wired pci card. I would like to use the
wireless pci card to interface with my gateway. Eventually I would like
to use my computer as a gateway for a small network, using the wired nic.


# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)

# The loopback interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian
installation
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp

I know that my router is set up properly because I'm able to use the
card with Knoppix. I'm still using the "out-of-the-box" configuration
for my router, meaning no wep or anthing like that. I also tried to
start the wlan0 interface using the following command:

pump -i wlan0

The result of that is "Operation failed".

My wlan.conf is the "stock" version. Also, here's my
/etc/modutils/linux-wlan-ng file:


# Aliases to tell insmod/modprobe which module to use when bringing up the
# wlan0 interface.

# Uncomment the line corresponding to the type of prism2 device you have.
alias wlan0 prism2_pci
#alias wlan0 prism2_usb
#alias wlan0 prism2_cs
#alias wlan0 prism2_plx

Does anyone know what I'm missing? I don't know where to go next.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Tom Purl

Tom Purl wrote:
> When I do an ifconfig, I get the following:
>
> lo ...
>
> wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:5B:91:59:61
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:16800 (16.4 KiB)
> Interrupt:5 Memory:d3ab1000-d3ab2000
>
> I don't have an ip address. I have an ma311 PCI card (which has the
> prism chipset) and a no-name wired pci card. I would like to use the
> wireless pci card to interface with my gateway. Eventually I would like
> to use my computer as a gateway for a small network, using the wired nic.
>
>
> # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)
>
> # The loopback interface
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian
> installation
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
> auto wlan0
> iface wlan0 inet dhcp
>
> I know that my router is set up properly because I'm able to use the
> card with Knoppix. I'm still using the "out-of-the-box" configuration
> for my router, meaning no wep or anthing like that. I also tried to
> start the wlan0 interface using the following command:
>
> pump -i wlan0

Did you try pump as root ?

Have you tried to allocate an ip adress with ifconfig ?
root# ifconfig wlan0 up 10.0.0.2