Guest severian Posted November 17, 2002 Report Share Posted November 17, 2002 Hello, Everyone, I bought a Netgear MA401 PCMCIA card for my HP Omnibook 6000 laptop. Mandrake 8.2 and 9 work wonderfully with everything on my PC except this card. I am new to Linux, but I am a quick study...I searched on the net for help, trying Prism2 and the Netgear Redhat drivers, but I'm not entirely sure I was following the procedures correctly. If there is anyone who has gotten this card to work, I would LOVE to hear from you! Additionally, this card works fine with Windows 2000...I'm new to wireless and not sure if I can use another manufacturer's card with the Netgear router...if I can, then I don't have a problem returning this card for one that works with Mandrake.. Thanks in advance, Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest severian Posted November 20, 2002 Report Share Posted November 20, 2002 After much downloading, compiling and fiddling about, I found the way to get this card to work. I downloaded the latest pcmcia-cc from sourceforge, the version being pcmcia-cs-3.2.3, compiled and installed it. In the /etc/pcmcia directory, I created a file called "netgear.conf". In this file, I typed the following: card "Intersil PRISM2 11 Mbps Wireless Adapter" manfid 0x000b, 0x7300 bind "orinoco_cs" The card actually works now. I should add that through a week of screwing around with this, that I installed Red Hat 8 along with the drivers from Netgear, and it worked fine, but Red Hat 8 is SUCH a dog and full of bloat-ware, that I decided against keeping it and went BACK to Mandrake Linux 9. RedHat has a pretty interface, but my HP Omnibook 6000's cdrom was acting strangely with it, and I preferred the stability I'd seen in Mandrake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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