Ola,
Check out the SuSE support database article at
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wavelan.html. The troubleshooting section
should help. I have more info at my page at
http://pages.sbcglobal.net/zvan.
My card is set up as eth1 and works fine.
Ola Theander wrote:
> Dear subscribers.
>
>
>
> I recently upgraded from SuSE 8.1 to SuSE 8.2 and unfortunately I can't
> get my NetGear MA401 pcmcia wlan card to work properly. I've found on the
> Internet that I need to rename the "ifcfg-eth-pcmcia-1" file created by
> Yast2 to "ifcfg-wlan-pcmcia-1" in order to have the config. file found by
> wlan-ng packet. This way the message "Apr 30 13:04:38 tuxpc ifup: No
> configuration found for wlanpcmcia-1 wlan0" in var/log/messages is
> prevented. According to the documentation that I've found, that's all
> that's needed to make the wlan card to work properly but unfortunately
> this isn't the case for me. After renaming the file I get the following
> messages in var/log/messages (I've extracted the parts in "messages" that
> seems relevant to me). It seems to me that some functions are missing
> according to the messages in the lower sections, made by "ifup-wireless".
>
>
>
> The card worked without any problem with SuSE 8.1. I just configured it
> with YAST2 and it was up and running.
>
>
>
> Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
> Kind regards, Ola Theander
>
>
>
> Aug 25 12:46:00 c0003 cardmgr[786]: +
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB//pcmcia/prism2_cs.o: unresolved symbol
> p80211netdev_hwremoved
>
> Aug 25 12:46:00 c0003 cardmgr[786]: +
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB//pcmcia/prism2_cs.o: unresolved symbol
> p802addr_to_str
>
> Aug 25 12:46:00 c0003 cardmgr[786]: +
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB//pcmcia/prism2_cs.o: unresolved symbol
> register_wlandev
>
> Aug 25 12:46:00 c0003 cardmgr[786]: +
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB//pcmcia/prism2_cs.o: unresolved symbol
> p80211netdev_rx
>
> Aug 25 12:46:00 c0003 cardmgr[786]: +
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB//pcmcia/prism2_cs.o: unresolved symbol
> unregister_wlandev
>
> Aug 25 12:46:00 c0003 cardmgr[786]: +
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB//pcmcia/prism2_cs.o: unresolved symbol wlan_setup
>
> Aug 25 12:46:00 c0003 cardmgr[786]: +
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB//pcmcia/prism2_cs.o: unresolved symbol
> wlan_unsetup
>
> Aug 25 12:46:00 c0003 cardmgr[786]: + Using
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB//pcmcia/prism2_cs.o
>
> Aug 25 12:46:00 c0003 cardmgr[786]: + Symbol version prefix ''
>
> Aug 25 12:46:00 c0003 cardmgr[786]: insmod exited with status 1
>
> Aug 25 12:46:00 c0003 cardmgr[786]: executing: 'modprobe -v prism2_cs'
>
> Aug 25 12:46:00 c0003 cardmgr[786]: + /sbin/insmod
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB/wlan-ng/p80211.o
>
> Aug 25 12:46:00 c0003 cardmgr[786]: + Using
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB/wlan-ng/p80211.o
>
> Aug 25 12:46:00 c0003 cardmgr[786]: + Symbol version prefix ''
>
> Aug 25 12:46:00 c0003 cardmgr[786]: + /sbin/insmod
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB/wlan-ng/prism2_cs.o
>
> Aug 25 12:46:00 c0003 cardmgr[786]: + Using
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB/wlan-ng/prism2_cs.o
>
> Aug 25 12:46:00 c0003 kernel: init_module: prism2_cs.o: 0.1.16-pre9 Loaded
>
> Aug 25 12:46:00 c0003 kernel: init_module: dev_info is: prism2_cs
>
> Aug 25 12:46:00 c0003 kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1411
>
> Aug 25 12:46:00 c0003 kernel: prism2_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io
> 0x0100-0x013f
>
> Aug 25 12:46:00 c0003 cardmgr[786]: executing: './wlan-ng start wlan0'
>
> ..
>
> .
>
> Aug 25 12:46:01 c0003 /etc/hotplug/net.agent[829]: Interface wlan0 is
> handled by service PCMCIA ... exiting
>
> Aug 25 12:46:01 c0003 ifup-wireless: command 'iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed'
> returned
>
> Aug 25 12:46:01 c0003 ifup-wireless: Error for wireless request "Set Mode"
> (8B06) :
>
> Aug 25 12:46:01 c0003 ifup-wireless: SET failed on device wlan0 ; Function
> not implemented.
>
> Aug 25 12:46:01 c0003 ifup-wireless: command 'iwconfig wlan0 nick c0003'
> returned
>
> Aug 25 12:46:01 c0003 ifup-wireless: Error for wireless request "Set
> Nickname" (8B1C) :
>
> Aug 25 12:46:01 c0003 ifup-wireless: SET failed on device wlan0 ; Function
> not implemented.
>
> Aug 25 12:46:01 c0003 ifup-wireless: command 'iwconfig wlan0 key
> B00162D69BC8FC48AEC5168F36' returned
>
> Aug 25 12:46:01 c0003 ifup-wireless: Error for wireless request "Set
> Encode" (8B2A) :
>
> Aug 25 12:46:01 c0003 ifup-wireless: SET failed on device wlan0 ; Function
> not implemented.
>
> Aug 25 12:46:01 c0003 ifup-wireless: command 'iwconfig wlan0 essid any'
> returned
>
> Aug 25 12:46:01 c0003 ifup-wireless: Error for wireless request "Set
> ESSID" (8B1A) :
>
> Aug 25 12:46:01 c0003 ifup-wireless: SET failed on device wlan0 ; Function
> not implemented..
--
Zane
Registered Linux User 159730
The box said Windows 98 or better, so I installed SuSE Linux.
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