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

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.

> 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.

Are the modules for the adapter being loaded? I have this adapter and
while I'm not currently using it (I have a Cardbus card which is easier
to fit mechanically onto my laptop) I didn't have any trouble getting
it up and running under Fedora. But I don't recall if I had to add the
VID/PID for this device manually.

I can do a modprobe prism2_usb and get no error.

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

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Are the modules for the adapter being loaded? I have this adapter and
> while I'm not currently using it (I have a Cardbus card which is
easier
> to fit mechanically onto my laptop) I didn't have any trouble getting
> it up and running under Fedora. But I don't recall if I had to add
the
> VID/PID for this device manually.

> I can do a modprobe prism2_usb and get no error.

It should load automatically, you should NOT need to load it. Also it
should automatically bring in another module, I think it's called
either p80211 or p80211b. Does /lib/modules/{version}/modules.usbmap
show the VID/PID for your adapter?

What does dmesg show after you modprobe prism2_usb?

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.


(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> > I can do a modprobe prism2_usb and get no error.
>
> It should load automatically, you should NOT need to load it. Also it
> should automatically bring in another module, I think it's called
> either p80211 or p80211b. Does /lib/modules/{version}/modules.usbmap
> show the VID/PID for your adapter?
>
> What does dmesg show after you modprobe prism2_usb?

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.