Networking Netgear

[Hydr0x]

Hello everyone. I am fairly new to Linux and have some questions that I have not seen answered. First of all I am running a dual boot with Windows NT 4.0 Server SP6 MBR and Slackware Linux 8.1 Kernel 2.4.18 on a i686 P400 Box. I sucessfully installed the dual boot and bought some books and figured out what to do to solve some issues. Now for my problem that I couldn't find out how to fix. The Windows partition is able to access my network and internet from my MA301/MA401 Netgear Cards. However I cant set these cards up to work in Linux. The router is a Netgear MR314. How would I do this? All Netgear said to me was that they dont have the expertise to help me out!! They told me that it is a PRISM 3 chipset too. Is there any way that I can set this up to work? I really need this to work. Also please don't tell me to contact my administrator-It is a home networrk (with no PDC or BDC and server). Well I think that is all the details needed...so it'd be nice if I can set this up and use linux to connect-very nice. Thank you very much.

[tonimontanna]

I have never had to deal with the netgear 401 series in terms of nic cards! The only netgear cards that I have dealt with were the 310/311 series. Those cards worked great with Redhat! You might want to a a search on this site to solve your problem

or try

www.google.com/linux

[jumpedintothefire]

Is that a wireless card??

www.google.com/linux
searched on: netgear wireless linux

turned up this:

http://www.ndpgroup.com.au/wireless/linux.html

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The linux-wlan-ng-0.1.13-pre1 version has direct support for the MA401 card and it works perfectly! Make sure you have the latest pcmcia card services installed first.
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Looks like you need to treat it as an pcmcia card....

[Hydr0x]

yeah it is a wireless pcmsia card with a PCI adapter- knew i forgot to mention something. ill check linux-wlan out tho-will return succes/failure news

[Hydr0x]

failure but for a strange reason...

make all doesnt work because gcc seems to be broken

it cant find stdlib and stdio

this will be hard...any ideas?

[jumpedintothefire]

Can you give me a step by step of what you did?
Try the rpm
http://prism2.unixguru.raleigh.nc.us/

[Hydr0x]

i actually need 0.1.19 since i want all the neewest dirvers.


here is what i did:

made a folder for the wlan

tar zxvf linux-wlan-ng-X.Y.Z.tar.gz

make config

make all


now i get errors saying that stdlib and stdio cannot be found...now that i think about it i skipped gcc during installation...

[Hydr0x]

no wait i did a full development install...why do i get the errors

since i can't copy paste from linux(no internet) here is an example error :

/bin/sh: ngcc command not found

argh...i really must set this network up

[jumpedintothefire]

Your doing that as root?
I tried 0.1.14 on RH 7.3 no issues...
Now I just nne the card...

[Hydr0x]

ok now it has becime apparent that the gcc 2.9.5 is messed despite being installed newly. I have tried compiling the simple source code below with cc or gcc:

#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
printf("Hello, world\n");
}

lol

the error is cannot find stdio.h or stdlib.h or anything
so obviously something is wrong there. am i right?

yeah root...i do EVERYTHING as root

oh and without gcc i cant upgrade to a new gcc because that requires compiling

[Hydr0x]

ok ok

now every compiler works-fixed it :)

[Hydr0x]

hmmm....ok i compiled th pcmcia scripts and am now compiling the wlan thing

what does it mean when it says:

"/usr/src/linux/include/linux/malloc.h is deprecated use slab. instead"

i cant see what there is to do

the pcmcia scripts were missing efore but now they work and i compiled them correctly.

[jumpedintothefire]

Got me.....:confused:

[Hydr0x]

thats '...use slab.h instead"

actually i did this:

#pico "/usr/src/linux/include/linux/malloc.h

i found that that woarining is actually part of the file

actually the script netdev.h causes error 1's and 2's

[Hydr0x]

ok guys....
i tried the rpm above and it worked...
now i have both the pcmcia and the wlan scripts built and installed!!

however i still cannot go on the internet....

i modified the files (excepty init.d) and i can't see what's wrong...

please help me out----I'm so damn close!

[jumpedintothefire]

what does ifconfig and route show??

[Hydr0x]

#ifconfig
lo Link encap: Local loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask: 255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU: 16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 fropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes: (0.0 b)

#route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
Loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo


anyone is smart enough to know that this is not very good. how can i expect to be on a network with only loopback


is setting up a linux comnputer to be on a network supposed to be SO DAMN DIFFICULT---for everyone else it seems to be a breeze. These cards were purchased because I have a wireless network and they were listed as COMPLETELY linux compatible...

any ideas? i have a feeling that a billion different problems could come into play with this...

[jumpedintothefire]

With out having a wireless card, I'm not to sure which way to start debugging this.....

Dug this up.... searchable archives under 'check it out', hope it helps....

http://www.goonda.org/wireless/prism2/

Someone got it running, see what they did:

http://linuxnewbie.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=64664

[Hydr0x]

but i can't install those modules-they are for RH not Slackware. Sp modprobe prism2_pci or whatever wont work.

[jumpedintothefire]

----quote----
i tried the rpm above and it worked...
now i have both the pcmcia and the wlan scripts built and installed!!
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Thought you have that worked out....
Does lsmod show the module loaded??
Sorry not a slack guy.... would insmod install the module then?


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any ideas? i have a feeling that a billion different problems could come into play with this...
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This is what caught my eye:

wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable
wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_autojoin ssid=YOURSSID authtype=opensystem
ifconfig wlan0 LANIP netmask NETMASK(aka subnet)IP broadcast WANIP


Thought this might be the missing piece of info...

[Hydr0x]

i used a seperate pcmcia script....

i also used the the wlan from the link you gave me (never said anything about redaht)----that is the first of the required packages(i don't need the documentation which is the second) if you scroll down there is another section that says "Kernel Modules" i did not install any of those becaus e thay are for redhat. lsmod shows the "pcmcia_core" modules loaded. should i try and install a RH 7.3 module or no?


whoops--mistake

i did install the doc, the first required pakage, adn the src---just not the module.

[jumpedintothefire]

http://prism2.unixguru.raleigh.nc.us/README

Has the step by step to compile the src rpm...

change:
--define='linvers rh73.5'
to:
--define='linvers sl8.1'


Then just install the module one for your box, as the rest you've already installed...