[Wolves] wireless networking

[Matt Wright]

Hi,

I would try the hostap drivers at http://hostap.epitest.fi/. The MA311 is a
Prism2/2.5 card afaik and the hostap drivers work really well on my WPC11
(PC Card Prism 2.5). There is a PCI driver that you can use on your MA311
and it should work, I think. Plus the hostap drivers support wireless tools
so you can use /etc/network/interfaces to configure your wireless in debian.

Regards,

Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Turner" <jamesfturner@yahoo.co.uk>
To: <wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 12:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Wolves] wireless networking


> On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 6:19 pm, Rachael Baylis wrote:
> > I'm really frustrated...
> >
> > We recently got a wireless networking system at home. I've just got my
> > card, and I'm trying to get
> > it working with Red Hat 8.0
> >
> > The card is a Netgear 11Mbps 802.11b Wireless PCI Adapter MA311
> >
> > It's working under Windows, with the provided drivers; the information I
> > found on the net suggests
> > that older products of theirs work with Linux, but I can't find anything
> > much on the specific card,
> > except that some people have been using "orinoco" drivers with it.
> >
> > To determine what drivers I need, apparently I should run the command
> > "lspci -v" at the command line,
> > to get information on the exact details. However, when I do this, I get
the
> > message "command not
> > found". Man and info files for lspci are present, though not terribly
> > helpful.
>
> That command is stored in the /sbin directory, which is not in your path
by
> default. Try typing the following instead:
>
> /sbin/lspci -v
>
> If you still can't get the command to work (for example if you don't have
the
> lspci command installed) you can obtain identical information (albeit
> presented slightly differently) by typing
>
> cat /proc/pci
>
> > What should I do? What exactly do I need to download / install? Are
there
> > any card-specific drivers
> > around that I'm just missing? What are these "orinoco" drivers, and
where
> > can I find them?
>
> I'm afraid I have minimal experience of wireless under Linux but hopefully
the
> following may help:
>
> [Red Hat specific]
>
> There's a graphical tool for configuring network connections: On the "Hat"
> menu choose "System Settings", "Network" or running the /usr/sbin/neat
> command as root. Click "New" on the toolbar, choose "Wireless Connection"
and
> seeing if the Wizard manages to set up the card for you. I note that
various
> Lucent cards are listed if you choose "Other Wireless Card".
>
> [end Red Hat specific]
>
> ORiNOCO is a brand name used for various members of Lucent Technologies
> wireless LAN product range. These were previously sold under the name
> WaveLAN, which you may also see mentioned. The product you purchased may
use
> either rebadged Lucent hardware or compatible hardware.
>
> If the card is indeed compatible with Lucent ORiNOCO, then the kernel
module
> (driver) for it will be orinoco_pci.o, which is already included in the
> standard Red Hat kernel. You could try typing /sbin/modprobe orinoco_pci
and
> seeing if anything useful happens.
>
> Once you have the kernel module loaded and running, I suspect that you'll
need
> to have the wireless-tools RPM (on one of the installation CDs) installed
if
> it isn't already.
>
> > Thanks
> > Rachael
> >
> > PS on a related note of pure, unadulterated ignorance - how do I
uninstall
> > old kernel versions? I'm
> > running out of space and currently have three versions knocking around.
And
> > I can't work out
> > how to remove them. Any advice (with or without jeering comments) would
be
> > greatly appreciated.
>
> Assuming that the old kernels were installed as RPMs:
>
> rpm -q kernel
>
> will list the kernel versions installed, for example
>
> kernel-2.4.18-14
> kernel-2.4.18-27.8.0
>
> Then use rpm -e to remove the version you no longer need. For example, to
> remove the first of the above two kernels you'd type
>
> rpm -e kernel-2.4.18-14
>
> If you installed the kernel from an RPM the above is strongly recommended
over
> the manual method described below:
>
> If the kernel was installed manually (eg from a tarball or compiled
yourself)
> then you can just delete the files from the appropriate locations, then
> remove the corresponding entry from the GRUB boot loader.
>
> IMPORTANT: Make sure you don't make your system unbootable by
> deleting/changing the wrong files! It may be worth creating a boot disc or
> familiarising yourself with booting from the CD in recovery mode before
you
> start. Also, you could rename or move files rather than deleting them
until
> you're sure you won't need to put them back.
>
> The kernel itself is stored in the /boot directory, usually under a name
> begining with vmlinuz, for example vmlinuz-2.4.18-14. There may be related
> files named some or all of the following, followed by the same version
> number: config, initrd, module-info, System.map and vmlinux. These can be
> deleted too. If you're following the "rename before deleting" advice then
> these files should probably be kept inside /boot in order to be easily
> accessible through GRUB.
>
> Most of the disc space used by the kernel relates to the modules, which
are
> stored in a subdirectory of /lib/modules corresponding to the version
number.
> The appropriate directory can be deleted if no longer needed.
>
> Good luck!
>
> James
>
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