Using a Netgear MA301

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Sun Oct 7 02:45:52 EST 2001


On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 01:04:58AM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've seen variuos references to people using this PCI host adapter to use a
> wireless card in a desktop system. However, no matter what drivers I load,
> none of them seem to work.
> 
> Looking at the code that comes with it (linux-wlan-ng) it would appear that
> the driver is the same, it's just a matter of getting it to detect it. The
> driver is expecting to find it attached to a CardBus bridge, but the MA301
> doesn't appear to be a bridge in that way.
> 
> So, does anyone else have one of these working?
> 
> The actual wireless card itself (MA401) works perfectly with the standard
> orinoco driver in a laptop.

Well, I should be getting an MA401 and MA301 in the next couple of
days, so I will soon find out what the situation is.

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