MA111v1 wifi

[Samuel Toogood]

Søren Hauberg wrote:
> Hi,
> I just tried that and I get the following:
> 
> sudo ifup wlan0
> Ignoring unknown interface wlan0=wlan0.
> 
> sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Ingen sådan enhed
> 
> The last is danish and means "No such device". In the networking tool in
> the menu wlan0 is not shown :-(
> 
> Thanks,
> Søren
> 
> Matt Patterson wrote:
> 
>> 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
>>>
>>
>>
> 
Until just now, I was experiencing exactly the same symptoms as you.
Reading your email motivated me to do some research, and eventually,
after a long and tortuous search, I realised that the answer was very
simple. You need (as well as the prism2 modules) to have the package
'linux-wlan-ng' installed. It contains the configuration utilities for
the MA111 and associated adapters, which are not the same as the
standard iwconfig etc. These adapters need to be 'turned on' by the
config utility before they will do anything. The package also contains
scripts which make it work with /etc/network/interfaces, so after
installing it, putting the details in that file as described by Janne
and issuing a quick 'sudo ifup wlan0', you should have a working wifi
adapter.

Hope it works for you. It does for me.

Samuel Toogood