Problem with SuSE 8.2 and NetGear MA401 wlan pcmcia card.

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..

 

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.