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struppi



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:43 pm    Post subject: Netgear MA111 Reply with quote

hi everybody.

under dsl my prism2 usb wlan stick works just great.

dsl-n doesn't detect it.

any ideas ?!? thx
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roberts



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

prism2 is the older protocol. It is support in DSL for older computers.

Still you can use your prims2 device with ndiswrapper.
I happen to have a netgear ma111 usb device and it works with ndiswrapper.

Manually configure card like this:

As root:
1. Copy Windows XP drivers for it, NETMA111.INF and MA111nd5.sys to home dir.
2. ndiswrapper -i NETMA111.INF
3. ndiswrapper -l
4. modprobe ndiswrapper
5. You can use netcardconfig - or -
Use iwconfig wlan0 commands to set your essid and key
And then pump -i wlan0

I am using my netgear ma111 to post this.
By copying the driver files to home and then adding your command to /opt/bootlocal.sh
it is easy to save these setting.
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struppi



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 8:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

thank you, i didn't try ndiswrapper because there still is a prism2 menu entry
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roberts



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 4:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Your right. I need to do more cleanup.
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struppi



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PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2006 11:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hm, there are more problems. loading the driver works.

here is what dmesg said:
[code:1]dsl@dslbox:~$ dmesg | grep usb
Modules linked in: ndiswrapper snd_mixer_oss snd ntfs agpgart cmpci opl3 mpu401 sound soundcore gameport jedec_probe cfi_probe gen_probe mtdcore chipreg map_funcs i2c_i801 i2c_core parport_pc parport 8250 serial_core usbhid pcmcia yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia_core video thermal processor fan container button battery ac genrtc unionfs cloop sbp2 ohci1394 ieee1394 usb_storage ub ohci_hcd uhci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore
[<e0d34c47>] ndiswrapper_add_one_usb_dev+0x7b/0x16c [ndiswrapper]
[<e0839050>] usb_probe_interface+0x48/0x68 [usbcore]
[<e0839125>] usb_register+0x49/0x94 [usbcore]
usbcore: deregistering driver ndiswrapper
dsl@dslbox:~$ dmesg | grep net
ndiswrapper: driver netma111 (NETGEAR,08/11/2003, 3.0.8) loaded
dsl@dslbox:~$[/code:1]

but there is no wlan0 device an netcardconfig and iwconfig failed.

what now ?!?
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roberts



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PostPosted: Thu May 04, 2006 3:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

After doing a modprobe the wlan0 device shows up.

# modprobe ndiswrapper
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struppi



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PostPosted: Thu May 04, 2006 9:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

but not on my system. the "modprobe ndiswrapper" command seems to do nothing and it creates no wlan0 device.
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roberts



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PostPosted: Thu May 04, 2006 4:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A laptop I presume? You will then need to try various boot codes.
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struppi



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PostPosted: Mon May 08, 2006 7:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

no its not a notebook, its an normal pIII desktop. what cheatcodes should i try?
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roberts



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PostPosted: Mon May 08, 2006 6:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Perhaps one of more of the following:

pnpbios=off pci=bios noapic

or even

acpi=off or acpi=force
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roberts



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 4:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have compiled prism2 support and added it back in.
Now my ma111 is detected and work natively.
Look for this iin RC2 comming soon.
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