Re: wireless adapter recommendation
- From: Wayne Topa <linuxone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 23:37:19 -0400
Default User(xyzzyx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) is reported to have said:
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Thanks to all for your replies.
I am trying to set up a Netgear MA111 (v1) usb wireless adapter on a
desktop system, later to set up on a laptop if it works on the desktop
system.
Sorry but I have to ask as you did not mention what you have done to
get ready to install the software.
Did you do
aptitude install linux-wlan-ng linux-wlan-ng-source linux-wlan-ng-firmware
and most important linux-wlan-ng-doc
then did you read the file
/usr/share/doc/linux-wlan-ng/firmware/NEWS.Debian.gz
or do
man linux-wlan-ng-build-firmware-deb
if you did the above then, while connected to the net, did you execute
the file mentioned there that downloads the necessary firmware files from
the the linux-wlan.org site?
Did you read the docs in /usr/share/linux-wlan-ng?
Then if the answer to all of the above, did you look at the config
files in /etc/wlan and edit, if necessary, the wlan.conf file?
lsusb says:
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0846:4110 NetGear, Inc. MA111 WiFi (v1)
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 058f:9254 Alcor Micro Corp. Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
http://linux-wless.passys.nl says that linux-wlan-ng should work with
this adapter.
<http://www.linux-wlan.org> also says that the MA111 works with
linux-wlan-ng.
NOTE: Prior to running module-assistant, you must have a kernel
source file and a kernel headers file installed.
ie in my case
VT1 root-3-TESTING:# dpkg -l linux-source* linux-header* |grep ^i
ii linux-headers-2.6.18-4 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12 Common header files for Linux 2.6.18
ii linux-headers-2.6.18-4-k7 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12 Header files for Linux 2.6.18 on AMD K7
ii linux-source-2.6.18 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12 Linux kernel source for version 2.6.18 with
I did:When you run m-a it compiles the software and creates .deb files.
- install module-assistant
- run module-assistant prepare
- run module-assistant auto-install linux-wlan-ng
- reboot
Make sure that they are then installed, either by m-a or by you.
The linux-wlan-*.deb files will be in the /usr/src directory.
After running m-a and installing all of the packages I get
ii linux-wlan-ng 0.2.7+dfsg-2 utilities for wireless prism2 cards
ii linux-wlan-ng-firmware 0.2.7+dfsg-2 firmware files used by the linux-wlan-ng dri
ii linux-wlan-ng-firmware-files 0.2.7+dfsg-2 firmware files used by the linux-wlan-ng dri
ii linux-wlan-ng-modules-2.6.18t40 0.2.7+dfsg-2 drivers for wireless prism2 cards
ii linux-wlan-ng-source 0.2.7+dfsg-2 linux-wlan-ng driver
As this is linux. There is no need to reboot.
Oh, have you installed the dhcp3-client package? You need that for
DHCP.
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removed dmesg listing
(NOTE: eth0 is a wired pci card connection, works fine, uses tulip
driver).
Notice from dmesg these lines:
prism2usb_init: prism2_usb.o: 0.2.5 Loaded
prism2usb_init: dev_info is: prism2_usb
usbcore: registered new driver prism2_usb
I do not see the wlan entry in the ifconfig output. There should be
scripts in /etc/network/if.up.d and post-down.d that start/stop the
device as soon as it is plugged in or ifup/ifdown wlan are executed.
They depend on a file you have to create in /etc/wlan.
Here is what I see when the USB adapter is up
#iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11-b ESSID:"Mtntop_AP" Nickname:"Mtntop_AP"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:0F:B5:11:37:1F
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Tx-Power:18 dBm
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Link Quality=25/92 Signal level=-65 dBm Noise level=-90 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
# ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:280 (280.0 b) TX bytes:280 (280.0 b)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:E9:09:02:27
inet addr:192.168.1.9 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20a:e9ff:fe09:227/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:73 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:64 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:13163 (12.8 KiB) TX bytes:11254 (10.9 KiB)
and my /etc/network/interfaces file is
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
up route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 dev lo
down route del -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 dev lo
# The primary network interface
# Ashton USB Dongle
# NOTE: all setup for this USB Dongle is is in /etc/wlan/
# and the startup script in /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/linux-wlan-ng-pre-up
# and down with the /etc/network/if-post-down.d/linux-wlan-ng-post-down
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
Hope I didn't miss anything. It's late so if you need more help, we are here.
Regards
Wayne
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