Any Success configuring a Microsoft wireless adapter MN-520

Slinger · Apprentice Joined: 14 Dec 2002 Posts: 230

Just got this for free - which is why i'm using it

Compiled the linux-wlan-ng (i have done this before with linksys and all worked). However, not on 1.4 rc2 i cannot get it to work for the life of me. Can't even get wlan0 to show up. Tried everything including copying over net.eth0 to net.wlan0 ----- no go. Going nuts here.

Searched the forums, google...etc. Everything i have tried has not worked.

and yes, the latest build of the wlan project supports this card

Thanks

Slinger · Apprentice Joined: 14 Dec 2002 Posts: 230

Just a bit more info - it is a pcmcia card. I follow all the directions to a TEE. Whent the wlan script runs i get the following:

Starting WLAN Devices:wlanctl-ng: No such device
Faield to enable the device, exitcod=1
grep: /proc/net/p80211/wlan0/wlandev: No such file or directory
wlanctl-ng: No such device
dot11PrivacyOptionImplemented mibget failed.
wlanctl-ng: No such device
error: Autojoin indicated failure!

Slinger · Apprentice Joined: 14 Dec 2002 Posts: 230

anyone use this card yet and have issues?

CodeHacker84 · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2003 12:49 am Post subject: Problem with wireless NIC

Alright, I'm studying for the A+ exams, unfortunately they don't cover networking very well as that is the domain of Net+. I have got the same damn problem with my Netgear MA401 PCMCIA NIC. Damn thing won't come up, even if I have all of the driver modules modprobed, and I've run the init script about ten or twelve times, stopping and restarting. Doesn't work.

I'm using a Vanilla 2.4.20 kernel with an ACPI patch newer than that used in the 2.4.20-gentoo-r1 kernel, and linux-wlan-ng package version 0.2.1-pre1
HELP!!!
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CodeHacker84 · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2003 4:12 pm Post subject:

* bump *

Anybody alive in here anymore?

I've tried everything I can think of. I've booted from the LiveCD even. There's just nothing that works. Here's are the only things that I haven't considered:

:evil:

Virus infection

(I don't know, what's the word on Linux viruses?)
:evil:

Borked backward compatibility (For some reason the thing has trouble with the module "i82365")
:evil:

Bad hardware :cry:

(entirely possible, the damn Toshiba piece of crap :twisted:

has been running at about 65*C since I got it)

Anyone else having trouble with a Netgear MA401 PC wireless card? If not, what are you doing that I'm not?

Any comments? Please?!
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Athlon64 3200
1GB Corsair PC3200 C2
MSI K8T Neo FIS2R
CoolerMaster WaveMaster (Black)
Antec TruePower 550W
120 GB WD SATA Drive
160 GB WD PATA Drive
54x32x54 CD-R/RW
Dual head: ATI 9800 AiW/LG1720P && Voodoo3 PCI/IBM G40 CRT

BradN · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2003 12:36 am Post subject:

Is it possible you have a cardbus card, but only a 16 bit PCMCIA slot? Also, see if the card shows up using the cardctl utility (run "cardctl status").

CodeHacker84 · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2003 5:43 pm Post subject: Possible solution

Ok, after pondering this one for the better part of three days, I tried one last recompile of the drivers and I realized something, as it went scrolling up the screen: the ./Configure step of the ebuild for linux-wlan-ng was replying with a negative when the Configure script asked if it should build a card services (*_cs) driver for the card. AHA!!

So here's what I did: I typed "emerge linux-wlan-ng" as normal, except I interrupted it directly after it finished unpacking the sources by hitting Ctrl-C. After that, I proceeded to /var/tmp/portage/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1_pre1/work/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1_pre1/ (or something like that) and ran the ./Configure step myself. I replied in the affirmative to building the card services driver, said yes for the PLX driver (don't ask me why, maybe it's more important than I think, so that's why I'm including that little annecdote), and then answered all of the other questions by simply striking Return.
Following that, I also completed the "make all", "make install", and "make clean" steps myself. However, I have not removed the directories yet, for fear that it might disable the damn wireless card again (after I spent three days getting it to work again).

On that note, is it possible that someone misplaced a command or something in the ebuild? Or perhaps my USE variables are fjucked up? I don't know, all I know is that this was the approach that worked for my MA401 Netgear PCMCIA Wireless card.
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Athlon64 3200
1GB Corsair PC3200 C2
MSI K8T Neo FIS2R
CoolerMaster WaveMaster (Black)
Antec TruePower 550W
120 GB WD SATA Drive
160 GB WD PATA Drive
54x32x54 CD-R/RW
Dual head: ATI 9800 AiW/LG1720P && Voodoo3 PCI/IBM G40 CRT