Configuring Wireless MA311 PCI Card On Debian Woody

From: Tom Purl (tompurl2000_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/31/03 

Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 01:34:38 GMT

When I do an ifconfig, I get the following:

lo ...

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:5B:91:59:61
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:16800 (16.4 KiB)
           Interrupt:5 Memory:d3ab1000-d3ab2000

I don't have an ip address. I have an ma311 PCI card (which has the
prism chipset) and a no-name wired pci card. I would like to use the
wireless pci card to interface with my gateway. Eventually I would like
to use my computer as a gateway for a small network, using the wired nic.

# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)

# The loopback interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian
installation
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp

I know that my router is set up properly because I'm able to use the
card with Knoppix. I'm still using the "out-of-the-box" configuration
for my router, meaning no wep or anthing like that. I also tried to
start the wlan0 interface using the following command:

pump -i wlan0

The result of that is "Operation failed".

My wlan.conf is the "stock" version. Also, here's my
/etc/modutils/linux-wlan-ng file:

# Aliases to tell insmod/modprobe which module to use when bringing up the
# wlan0 interface.

# Uncomment the line corresponding to the type of prism2 device you have.
alias wlan0 prism2_pci
#alias wlan0 prism2_usb
#alias wlan0 prism2_cs
#alias wlan0 prism2_plx

Does anyone know what I'm missing? I don't know where to go next.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Tom Purl