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+ | ====== Netgear MA401 on Linux====== | ||
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+ | {{wlan: | ||
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+ | This is my old card called //802.11b Wireless PC Card//. It's an 16Bit PCMCIA card with the model name //MA401//. A small label on the backside calls it //Rev. D//. | ||
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+ | Here is what '' | ||
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+ | product info: " | ||
+ | manfid: 0x000b, 0x7300 | ||
+ | function: 6 (network)hh | ||
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+ | The card has a Prism 2.5 chipset which is well supported by various drivers including the Kernels '' | ||
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+ | To get the cardmanager to recognize the card put this in your ''/ | ||
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+ | < | ||
+ | card " | ||
+ | manfid 0x000b, 0x7300 | ||
+ | bind " | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | I was not able to get it running on Kernel 2.6.7. The orinoco_cs driver was unable to read it's MAC address and took the firmware version for 0.0.0 :-o. The hostap driver did compile but froze the whole machine on inserting the card. | ||