Netgear MA111 USB Wireless adapter

I recently set up a wireless network including a NetGear MA111 USB
adapter on this computer. It connects ok in Windows 98, but not at all
in RH9 (original
kernel, no updates/rebuilds). I went to www.linux-wlan.org and got the
pre11
drivers and they seemed to install OK (I could be wrong). an "lsmod"
shows that the prism2_usb driver is loaded. In order to install, I
unpacked the tar.gz file, and ran the 3 commands according to the
readme. (make, make all, and make install if i remember correctly.) So
although the driver is listed in lsmod, it doesn't connect. I've
searched all over but I can't put it all together.

I (somehow) got RedHat to check for wlan0 when booting. (The "starting
sendmail... [OK]; starting httpd... [OK] part). It then says "Bringing
up interface wlan0...", pauses for about 10 seconds, and fails with a
message that passes by too fast for me to read. I caught some portions
of it, including:

-SET failed on...
-and a message that contained the string "SIOCSIFFLAGS"

I feel like I'm getting closer; any help is appreciated.

Chris <c-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I recently set up a wireless network including a NetGear MA111 USB
> adapter on this computer. It connects ok in Windows 98, but not at all
> in RH9 (original
> kernel, no updates/rebuilds). I went to www.linux-wlan.org and got the
> pre11
> drivers and they seemed to install OK (I could be wrong). an "lsmod"
> shows that the prism2_usb driver is loaded. In order to install, I
> unpacked the tar.gz file, and ran the 3 commands according to the
> readme. (make, make all, and make install if i remember correctly.) So
> although the driver is listed in lsmod, it doesn't connect. I've
> searched all over but I can't put it all together.
>
> I (somehow) got RedHat to check for wlan0 when booting. (The "starting
> sendmail... [OK]; starting httpd... [OK] part). It then says "Bringing
> up interface wlan0...", pauses for about 10 seconds, and fails with a
> message that passes by too fast for me to read. I caught some portions
> of it, including:
>
> -SET failed on...
> -and a message that contained the string "SIOCSIFFLAGS"
>
> I feel like I'm getting closer; any help is appreciated.

Look at the output of dmesg after booting.

You might also try starting it partially by hand. This is how I do it
(with linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre16):

/sbin/wland
/etc/rc.d/init.d/wlan start
/usr/sbin/dhcpcd -t 30 -N -Y wlan0

(You might want to do an ifconfig wlan0 $SOME_IP instead of starting
dhcpcd if you have a static IP address.)

Note that the script installed as /etc/rc.d/init.d/wlan doesn't start
wland. I had to do this myself before running .../wlan start

HTH

Seb

Hello,

I have a similar problem. I am running slackware, MA111 and WEP128. I
am interested in a config file '/etc/wlan/wlancfg-xxx' with
wep-encryption enabled and a rc.local or wlan script.
Everytime iwconfig tells me 'Encryption keyff'. :-((
LED on access point flashs short if LED on USB adapter flashs, so I
think USB adapter has a connection to AP, but WEP does not work. Has
someone running MA111 with WEP128?

Thanks,

Sven


c-(E-Mail Removed) (Chris) wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed). com>...
> I recently set up a wireless network including a NetGear MA111 USB
> adapter on this computer. It connects ok in Windows 98, but not at all
> in RH9 (original
> kernel, no updates/rebuilds). I went to www.linux-wlan.org and got the
> pre11
> drivers and they seemed to install OK (I could be wrong). an "lsmod"
> shows that the prism2_usb driver is loaded. In order to install, I
> unpacked the tar.gz file, and ran the 3 commands according to the
> readme. (make, make all, and make install if i remember correctly.) So
> although the driver is listed in lsmod, it doesn't connect. I've
> searched all over but I can't put it all together.
>
> I (somehow) got RedHat to check for wlan0 when booting. (The "starting
> sendmail... [OK]; starting httpd... [OK] part). It then says "Bringing
> up interface wlan0...", pauses for about 10 seconds, and fails with a
> message that passes by too fast for me to read. I caught some portions
> of it, including:
>
> -SET failed on...
> -and a message that contained the string "SIOCSIFFLAGS"
>
> I feel like I'm getting closer; any help is appreciated.

Sebastian Hans <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> Look at the output of dmesg after booting.
>
> You might also try starting it partially by hand. This is how I do it
> (with linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre16):
>
> /sbin/wland
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/wlan start
> /usr/sbin/dhcpcd -t 30 -N -Y wlan0
>
> (You might want to do an ifconfig wlan0 $SOME_IP instead of starting
> dhcpcd if you have a static IP address.)
>
> Note that the script installed as /etc/rc.d/init.d/wlan doesn't start
> wland. I had to do this myself before running .../wlan start
>
> HTH
>
> Seb

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I ran into some problems. I tried
your
suggestions but I got a number of "command not found" errors. This
included the /sbin/wland, the /etc.../wlan start, and the dhcpd. Here
is some output of ifconfig and dmesg:

---------------------------------------
Linux version 2.4.20-8 ((E-Mail Removed)) (gcc version
3.2.2 200
30222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Thu Mar 13 17:54:28 EST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000010000000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffe00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
256MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 65536
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 61440 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/hda5
BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 497.441 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 992.87 BogoMIPS
Memory: 253004k/262144k available (1347k kernel code, 6708k reserved,
999k data,
132k init, 0k highmem)

PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfcaee, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:07.0
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT
SHARE_IRQ SER
IAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A

NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 146k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 132k freed
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 17:59:01 Mar 13 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:07.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:11.0
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xdce0, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <(E-Mail Removed)>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-2, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x846/0x4110) is not claimed by any
active driver
..
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,5), internal journal
Adding Swap: 522104k swap-space (priority -1)
prism2_init: prism2_usb.o: 0.2.1-pre11 Loaded
prism2_init: dev_info is: prism2_usb
usb.c: registered new driver prism2_usb
divert: allocating divert_blk for wlan0
Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.20, 18:00:21 Mar 13 2003
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0f.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 01:00.0
emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 10 model 0x8065 found, IO at 0xdcc0-0xdcdf, IRQ
10
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x8384:0x7608 (SigmaTel STAC9708)
emu10k1: SBLive! 5.1 card detected


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ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

[root@localhost /]# ifconfig wlan0 127.0.0.1
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device
[root@localhost /]# ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.1
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device
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(I cut out some stuff that didn't seem related to save space)

Chris <c-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Sebastian Hans <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>
>> You might also try starting it partially by hand. This is how I do it
>> (with linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre16):
>>
>> /sbin/wland
>> /etc/rc.d/init.d/wlan start
>> /usr/sbin/dhcpcd -t 30 -N -Y wlan0
>>
>> (You might want to do an ifconfig wlan0 $SOME_IP instead of starting
>> dhcpcd if you have a static IP address.)
>>
>> Note that the script installed as /etc/rc.d/init.d/wlan doesn't start
>> wland. I had to do this myself before running .../wlan start
>
> Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I ran into some problems. I tried
> your
> suggestions but I got a number of "command not found" errors. This
> included the /sbin/wland, the /etc.../wlan start, and the dhcpd.

So, that means dhcpcd probably isn't installed. As to wland and the wlan
start script ... perhaps you have installed it somewhere else?
How did you install linux-wlan-ng, anyway?

Seb