Netgear MA401 16-bit PCMCIA wifi card and FC3

Pluggers!

Hi, I bought a netgear ma401 wifi nic at the suggestion of a fellow plugger a while back because it 'just worked' when used with slackware. However, since slackware never could get my sound card working I swithced to fedora core 3 and this netgear ma401 802.11b 16-bit PCMCIA wifi nic doesn't work. but i am confused because it seems like it is at least recognized:

here is ifconfig

eth1      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:""  Nickname:"Prism  I"
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00   Bit Rate:11Mb/s   
          Tx-Power=15 dBm   Sensitivity:1/3  
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=0/92  Signal level=-68 dBm  Noise level=-122 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

This leads me to believe it is a prism chipset

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dmesg

eth1: Station identity 001f:0006:0001:0003
eth1: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 1.3.6
eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
eth1: MAC address 00:09:5B:23:3B:D6
eth1: Station name "Prism I"
eth1: ready
eth1: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f

*these are just the last few lines the entire dmesg can be seen at:
http://www.pastebin.com/230853



by the way Dennis K, could you dmesg and iwconfig your netgear card for me and tell me what yours says? we have the same card you and I.

Thanks gals and guys,

Mike Hoy



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