Netgear MA311: Cannot connect to Acess Point

Hello NG,

after several months of anger I bought a Netgear MA311 to build my own
router with Linux (the reason for that is a long story). However, I
built the card into the router system and it worked. I should add that
the router runs under fli4l, a router Linux distro which is mainly
developed in Germany. This time I got a additional computer by chance.

I ordered another wireless card with 54 MBit/s from eBay and wanna use
the 11 Mbit/s card MA311 in the new client PC. Now I've just built the
card into this computer -- the router system has no wireless NIC now but
I can luckily use a boxed router for some time. (So AP is working and
the windows PC I am writing at has no problems)


Now to problem: I plugged in the card and started the system. It was
immediately recognized and I could type in the parameters via iwconfig.
Unfortunately nothing happend which means the parameters appeared but no
connection to the AP has been established. Then I tried the hostap
drivers. So I installed "hostap-modules-2.6.8-686-2".

Now I have to wireless devices wifi0 and wlan0 (before hostap only
eth0). But I cannot set ESSID and other things via iwconfig for both. So
I won't ever connect to the AP! Mysteriously setting the WEP key is no
problem...

What goes wrong with the driver??

Daniel Böhmer, Germany

I've just bootet Damn Small Linux from CD on the same machine. It also
recognizes the card immediately and can connect without problems.

Sorry, I had forgotten to write that I am using Debian Sarge. Why is
Debian not able to handle the card correctly?

I ran lsmod and it seems to me that DSL uses the same orinoco called
driver to access the card. Under Debian it's the same one.

Daniel Böhmer

The problem is no problem anymore but I won't say it has been solved.

I destroyed my system by a really silly action and had to install Debian
again. However, when starting the Debian installer with the card plugged
in yet the setup program handled everything for me and fetched all
packages directly via FTP.


I'm a bit sad nobody could help me, but now I can access Internet what
is the most important thing.

Daniel Böhmer, Germany