Netgear Wireless

[Ow Mun Heng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Brian Marsh
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 11:07 PM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Netgear Wireless
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have got access to two Netgear wireless PCMCIA cards, the MA521 and
> MA401, however, I don't seem to be able to get either one to work. The
> MA521, when plugged in, appears not to be recognised, whilst 
> the MA401,
> though recognised as a Netgear MA401RA will not activate. 
> When I attempt
> to activate it, I get the error, 'Cannot get driver information:
> Operation not supported.
> 
> Although I am hoping that someone may have some ideas of what I should
> do, I am also after finding our where I can find a list of supposedly
> supported hardware, or find 3rd party drivers for the cards (though
> Netgear claim they support linux, I can't find any drivers on their CD
> that comes with the MA521!

I'm using MA401. It uses the orinoco_cs/orinoco/hermes drivers.

Make sure that you have those compiled in as a module or into the kernel.

if it's as a module, try modprobe orinoco_cs