Netgear MA521 wirelss 802.11b linux support

Hi,

I purchased a Netgear MA521 wirelss 802.11b card with Realtek chipset.I
tried to configured this card..on my FC2 using the ndiswrapper.I have
gone through a number of Howto's on how to make this card work on
linux..and after following the procedure,all I could do was to make the
link up in the wireless card.

when I do a "iwlist scan eth0" , all the wireless networks in my
vicinity are displayed but when I try to link to one of these using the
iwconfig,it wont get connected.

Has anyone made this card work on linux?please help me out.

Thanks,
Dheeraj

ksd wrote:

> when I do a "iwlist scan eth0" , all the wireless networks in my
> vicinity are displayed but when I try to link to one of these using the
> iwconfig,it wont get connected.

i don't have that card or FC2, but have you tried editing your
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (not sure if that's where it
is in FC2) file directly?
are the 'wireless networks in your vicinity' WEP/WAP protected? do you
know the keys?

try adding some of these options, from the info you get from 'iwlist
scan', to your ifcfg-eth0 file:
wireless_essid whateveryouget
wireless_key needtoknowthekey
wireless_mode Managed


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Hi,

Thanks for the reply.I didn't edit the ifcfg-eth0 file.When I tried the
card on unsecured networks(no Encryption key) the card was working
fine.That was the case when the wireless network of my school didn't
have a key.But now they have one.So, I tried to enter the key in the
command. like..,

iwconfig eth0 ESSID "...." key xxxx-xxxx-xx

it didn't work.I cant figure out why the card was working for unsecured
networks but..not for networks which require a password.is there any
way I can make it work?

ksd wrote:

> it didn't work.I cant figure out why the card was working for unsecured
> networks but..not for networks which require a password.is there any
> way I can make it work?
>

unfortunately not, i guess it has something to do with the drivers. i've
never been able to get the prism54 drivers to do WAP. i had a netgrear
wg511T that would also work with open wireless access points, but never
with WEP encrypted ACs. then i bought a wg511CN and that did/does now
work with WEP, but not WAP encryption. sorry, don't know what to suggest.

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On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:19:47 -0800, ksd wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the reply.I didn't edit the ifcfg-eth0 file.When I tried the
> card on unsecured networks(no Encryption key) the card was working
> fine.That was the case when the wireless network of my school didn't
> have a key.But now they have one.So, I tried to enter the key in the
> command. like..,
>
> iwconfig eth0 ESSID "...." key xxxx-xxxx-xx
>
> it didn't work.I cant figure out why the card was working for unsecured
> networks but..not for networks which require a password.is there any
> way I can make it work?

You forgot to specify the WEP key (prefix s: before the cleartext
password if you're using normal words as the WEP key):

iwconfig eth0 essid somessid
iwconfig eth0 key sassword_here open

It's a different case though if you want to use WPA - you'd need to
use the wpasupplicant program.

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