MA111v1 wifi

[Matt Patterson]

Have you tried simply bringing the device up. Maybe the driver doesnt 
support iwconfig style extensions. Just try:

sudo ifup wlan0

or

sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

and see what happens. You could probably also use the networking tool in 
the menu.

Matt



Søren Hauberg wrote:

> Hi,
> I have the usb wireless netgear MA111v1 that uses the prism2 chipset, 
> but I don't know how to get it working. I don't know the first thing 
> about WiFi, so I'm properly missing the obvious. When I insert the 
> card 'dmesg' tells me the following:
>
> [ 1282.079780] hub 1-0:1.0: over-current change on port 1
> [ 1282.581753] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and 
> address 2
> [ 1292.557617] prism2usb_init: prism2_usb.o: 0.2.2 Loaded
> [ 1292.557647] prism2usb_init: dev_info is: prism2_usb
> [ 1292.579606] usbcore: registered new driver prism2_usb
>
> So the driver gets loaded, right? Next I type 'iwconfig' which gives me:
>
> lo        no wireless extensions.
> eth0      no wireless extensions.
> sit0      no wireless extensions.
> wlan0     no wireless extensions.
>
> So I don't really know what to do. This card should work out of the 
> box, so I'm a bit lost here. Any help would be appriciated.
>
> /Søren
>