[Techtalk] Netgear MA401 and Red Hat 8.0 on an HP laptop

[txjulie at austin.rr.com]

Michelle Murrain wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to get a newly bought Netgear MA401 to work on a RH 8.0
> installation (on an HP laptop). These are the facts I know:
> 
> 1) The hardware works just fine - the card and all work fine under
> windows on the same box
> 2) Neither the wvlan_cs or the orinoco_cs drivers seem to work (even
> though I can find reference to either or both of them working in
> various places).
> 3) I tried adding the device name, manfid and what driver to bind in
> /etc/pcmcia/config, and that didn't work.
> 
> I get "unsupported card in slot 0" (or 1) in /var/log/messages,
> nothing shows up in dmesg when I put the card in (I also get a low
> toned beep, which I hear is bad)
> 
> I'm stuck. Ideas?

Take it back for a refund.

When I first started building my house network many years ago I
decided that all the NICs in the house would be Netgear NICs.

The first problem I had was that I couldn't get two Netgear NICs
to work in my firewall when it was running Linux, but they would
work when I was running Win2K.  So I replaced one with an Intel
NIC and things worked great. So I decided that all new NICs would
be Intel.  Over the past two years I've had to replace all but
one of the Netgear NICs (and that includes =two= PCMCIA wired
NICs).  In the same amount of time I've only had one non-Netgear
NIC fail -- an SMC PCMCIA wireless NIC.
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Julianne Frances Haugh             Life is either a daring adventure
txjulie at austin.rr.com                  or nothing at all.
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