[clue-tech] Need Help Installing MN-510 USB Wireless Network Adapter

Wed Dec 27 11:00:29 MST 2006

This is the doc that helped the most.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Device/NetgearMA111

I skipped aliasing wlan0 since the system had no problems detecting the hardware and assigning the driver after installing the linux-wlan-ng package.

The key step was avoiding the Networking control panel and edit the /etc/network/interfaces file by hand (like the old days).  Funny how CLI never quite goes away.  The reason being there's a bunch of wlan-specific settings that can only be set via a text editor that you can't set in the control panel.  Here's hoping Fiery will fix all that.

Then finally use the "sudo ifup wlan0" command rather than just "sudo ifinterface wlan0 up".  It turns out ifup is a high-level command that automagically calls all the necessary low-level commands, like ifinterface, dhclient, route, etc., to activate the adapter.  That was the main lesson I learned from all this.

----- Original Message ----
From: Russell Glissmann <rglissma at gmail.com>
To: CLUE tech <clue-tech at cluedenver.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 7:03:05 AM
Subject: Re: [clue-tech] Need Help Installing MN-510 USB Wireless Network Adapter

Brian;
Just for the sake of reference, could you state what exactly you did to get this adapter up and running?  I don't have the adapter, but you never know what I, or others, will come up with.

Thanks!
Russ

On 12/26/06, Brian Gibson <bwg1974 at yahoo.com> wrote:
Finally got it working. 12 hours is a long time to get a wireless adapter up and running.  Rather than search for how-tos for my specific adapter I searched for those with the same chipset and managed to find one.

It turns out ifup/ifdown does more than just ifconfig alone.  Also the Networking GUI is sorely lacking in configuration settings.  I had to set everything in the /etc/network/interfaces file.  Good news though I found out during my research that in Fiesty Fawn they are planning on overhauling the networking---a lofty goal being zeroconf networking.  We'll see how far they get.

----- Original Message ----
From: Brian Gibson <bwg1974 at yahoo.com>
To: CLUE tech <clue-tech at cluedenver.org>

Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 9:30:42 PM
Subject: Re: [clue-tech] Need Help Installing MN-510 USB Wireless Network Adapter

I didn't get as far with ndiswrapper as I did with linux-wlan-ng.  In fact, the network GUI displayed wlan0 as a wired connection.  So going back to linux-wlan-ng... here's output from dmesg

<SNIP>
[38111.829368] prism2usb_init: prism2_usb.o: 0.2.5 Loaded
[38111.829379] prism2usb_init: dev_info is: prism2_usb
[38111.832483] usbcore: registered new driver prism2_usb
<SNIP>
[39131.597601
] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2
[39140.502673] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[39140.681625] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[39142.146051] hfa384x_usbctlx_complete_sync: CTLX[3] error: state(Request failed)

[39142.146078] prism2sta_getcardinfo: Failed to retrieve NICIDENTITY
[39142.146090] prism2sta_getcardinfo: Failed, result=-5
[39142.146097] prism2sta_ifstate: prism2sta_getcardinfo() failed,result=-5

----- Original Message ----
From: Brian Gibson <bwg1974 at yahoo.com>
To: CLUE tech <clue-tech at cluedenver.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 4:07:07 PM

Subject: [clue-tech] Need Help Installing MN-510 USB Wireless Network Adapter

I got a notebook drive for Christmas, so I'm resurrecting my laptop. I installed Xubuntu 6.10 with minimal fuss.  I'm currently trying to get wireless working.  The MN-510 is a prism chipset.  I've successfully installed the linux-wlan-ng package and created an unencrypted connection to the wireless access point by following the readme provided with the package.

However, I've been unable to get the wireless to automatically connect to the AP after a restart.  The readme glosses over what's referred to as hotplug scripts.  I do not have a /etc/hotplug/ directory nor do I know where these provided scripts are located as they don't appear to be in /etc/wlan/.  Most Google searches end up with people who got as far as I did.  Any help would be appreciated.

Meanwhile I'm going to see about using the ndiswrapper method and see if I get further.

Thanks.

Brian

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