Re: [part2]Netgear MA401 16-bit PCMCIA wifi card and FC3

Up til now I haven't had any luck with iwconfig or Kwifimanager

but I came across info on the web it said to do this:

# /sbin/lsmod | grep "orinoco"

and if there is nothing outputted then i have to load my drivers myself

so I:

# /sbin/modprobe orinoco
# /sbin/modprobe orinoco_cs


now the Kwifimanager at least shows connected but oddly enough no ip!

here is the output of iwconfig:

eth1      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"WillowHouse"  Nickname:"Prism  I"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437GHz  Access Point: 
00:0F:66:20:8F:93  
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   Sensitivity:1/3 
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=78/92  Signal level=-18 dBm  Noise level=-145 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:211  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

yes the willow house is my ap :-)

just for the heck of it here's ifconfig:

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:09:5B:23:3B:D6 
          inet6 addr: fe80::209:5bff:fe23:3bd6/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:5183 (5.0 KiB)  TX bytes:372 (372.0 b)
          Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100

ok, now that to me is odd. in ifconfig it says inet6.

then i dmesg and thot this was weird:

[drm] Loading R200 Microcode
eth1: Error -110 setting multicast list.
eth1: Error -110 setting multicast list.
eth1: Error -110 setting multicast list.
eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
eth1: no IPv6 routers present
irq 5: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option.
[<c013c2c8>] __report_bad_irq+0x2b/0x68
[<c013c391>] note_interrupt+0x73/0x96
[<c013b996>] __do_IRQ+0x19f/0x221
[<c0104ca8>] do_IRQ+0x5e/0x7a
=======================
[<c01034da>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
[<c01203e8>] __do_softirq+0x2c/0x79
[<c0104d80>] do_softirq+0x38/0x3f
=======================
[<c0104cba>] do_IRQ+0x70/0x7a
[<c01034da>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
[<c020493a>] acpi_processor_idle+0xf1/0x1f6
[<c010108f>] cpu_idle+0x1f/0x34
[<c039c665>] start_kernel+0x16b/0x16d
handlers:
[<c0275b81>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x4b)
Disabling IRQ #5

so is this an irq concflict
how can i "try booting with the "irqpoll" option" and should I?

my understanding of the problem is that I have great signal strength but
no ip addy and that it's configured as ipv6.

btw here is a very small pic of the kwifimgr to show it's info:

http://members.cox.net/mhoy4/kwifimgr.png

and just for the heck of it i connected in xp just to make sure their ap
was working and it was.

altho i did use a different wifi card in xp.

thanks in advance,

mike hoy


> Michael wrote:
>
>> That card should work, set up router to give that nic a static ip,
>> but keep the nic on DHCP. I found this worked on mine, I am using
>> Netgear wg511.
>>
>> mike hoy wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> --------------------
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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