Netgear MA111 USB Wireless NIC problems

[bogey]

Hi all. I have a HP laptop. I've had gentoo running on this for a while. I'm trying to add a Netgear MA111 usb wireless network card.

I've emerged linux-wlan-ng, wireless-tools, and hotplug.

I have the following modules in modules.autoload...
usbcore
usb-uhci
usbmouse
prism2_usb
(... I'm omitting some that aren't related)

In modules.conf I have the following line
alias wlan0 prism2_usb

I added used rc-update to add the following to default:
wlan0
hotplug

In /etc/conf.d/ I edited the wlan files

I have the usb controller working successfully, as my usb mouse works fine. However, I can't get the NIC to be recognized...

#tail -f /var/log/syslog
I get a message that the device is not claimed by active driver. I've read up on other wireless USB postings in here. I read the document on the linux-wlan-ng site, and I'm stumped.

Thanks for your help,
-bogey

[bogey]

Okay, anyone running any type of usb wireless NIC? If so, what modules are you using?

-bogey

[ottbr]

Search for the MA101, its been out awhile and has some info about it in Linux.

[bogey]

Thanks, that's a good idea. I read through the stuff, and assuming the chipset, it looks like it should work. It looks like the atmel driver will do the job. I'll post results.

-bogey

[kikawala]

The Netgear MA111 has a Prism3 chipset (works with Prism2 drivers). It should work with linux-wlan-ng but the device IDs are not in the source. You can manually add the device IDs for the MA111 by editing the prism2sta.c file and then compiling the driver.

[bogey]

The Netgear MA111 has a Prism3 chipset (works with Prism2 drivers). It should work with linux-wlan-ng but the device IDs are not in the source. You can manually add the device IDs for the MA111 by editing the prism2sta.c file and then compiling the driver.

Thanks, this sounds promising...
I'm not very good with device code, how do I go about getting the ID's?

-bogey

[kikawala]

After you plug in the MA111, run dmesg. You should see the vendor/device IDs. Something like 0x0846,0x4110 .... actually it should say exactly 0x0846,0x4110 as thats what my MA111 shows up as.

[kikawala]

Just checked the linux-wlan-ng site and they have a pre11 version which supports the MA111. Unfortunately portage only has ebuilds upto pre8, but copying that ebuild to pre11 should work.

[bogey]

Cool, I'll try and post results.

FYI, I tried just adding the mantufacturer & device id's to a tar.gz I had of the linux-wlan-ng from my first attempts to get the card to work. I got compile errors. I don't know if I added the info wrong or the version was too old. I'll check out the new version's code section with device id's to see how it works, and then try to alter the ebuild.

-bogey

[bogey]

Just checked the linux-wlan-ng site and they have a pre11 version which supports the MA111. Unfortunately portage only has ebuilds upto pre8, but copying that ebuild to pre11 should work.

Thanks kikawala... It's working! I wasn't able to get the ebuild to alter and work, but I just went to ftp.linux-wlan.org and got the pre11 tar.gz. I did a
make config && make all && make install. Rebooted and wlan0 showed up. Then I edited the scripts in /etc/conf.d/ and did a rc-update add wlan0 default...

Anyways, it's working and I'm wandering around my place with a wireless gentoo laptop. Thanks everybody...

-bogey