<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is the doc that helped the most.<br><br><span><a target="_blank" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Device/NetgearMA111">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Device/NetgearMA111</a></span><br><br>I skipped aliasing wlan0 since the system had no problems detecting the hardware and assigning the driver after installing the linux-wlan-ng package.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br><br><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Russell Glissmann <rglissma@gmail.com><br>To: CLUE tech <clue-tech@cluedenver.org><br>Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 7:03:05 AM<br>Subject: Re: [clue-tech] Need Help Installing MN-510 USB Wireless Network Adapter<br><br>Brian;<br>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.<br><br>Thanks!<br>Russ
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/26/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Gibson</b> <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:bwg1974@yahoo.com">bwg1974@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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.<br><br>
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.
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Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 9:30:42 PM<br>Subject: Re: [clue-tech] Need Help Installing MN-510 USB Wireless Network Adapter<br><br>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
<br><br><SNIP><br>[38111.829368] prism2usb_init: prism2_usb.o: 0.2.5 Loaded<br>[38111.829379] prism2usb_init: dev_info is: prism2_usb<br>[38111.832483] usbcore: registered new driver prism2_usb<br><SNIP><br>[39131.597601
] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2<br>[39140.502673] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3<br>[39140.681625] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice<br>[39142.146051] hfa384x_usbctlx_complete_sync: CTLX[3] error: state(Request failed)
<br>[39142.146078] prism2sta_getcardinfo: Failed to retrieve NICIDENTITY<br>[39142.146090] prism2sta_getcardinfo: Failed, result=-5<br>[39142.146097] prism2sta_ifstate: prism2sta_getcardinfo() failed,result=-5<br><br><br>
----- Original Message ----<br>From: Brian Gibson <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:bwg1974@yahoo.com">bwg1974@yahoo.com</a>><br>To: CLUE tech <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:clue-tech@cluedenver.org">clue-tech@cluedenver.org</a>><br>Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 4:07:07 PM
<br>Subject: [clue-tech] Need Help Installing MN-510 USB Wireless Network Adapter<br><br>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.
<br><br>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.
<br><br>Meanwhile I'm going to see about using the ndiswrapper method and see if I get further.<br><br>Thanks.<br><br>Brian<br><br><br>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
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