Re: netgear pcmcia card

["dan moylan-3" <user=1052@nabble.blu.org>]

>> jerry writes: 
>>> I didn't have time yesterday to followup on this. You do 
>>> not use Wine to run a driver. 
>> 
>> yes, i know.  the wine directory is just where the download 
>> put the stuff.  i thought that i needed to run WG511v2.exe 
>> to get the .sys and .inf files but that didn't work. 
>> 
>>> Many times a Windows driver is distributed in a self 
>>> extracting archive. To run the driver under NDISWRAPPER, you 
>>> must first extract the Windows .sys and .inf files. Not sure 
>>> what chip that Netgear uses, but in the case of the Broadcom 
>>> chips, there is a native Linux driver, but that requires 
>>> that you install the firmware that must be extracted from 
>>> the .sys file. If I have the time today I'll take a look 
>>> online and see if I can help. 
>> 
>> in the ubuntu forums i found reference to a marvel driver 
>> supposedly suitable to my card, and downloaded these files: 
>>> 
>> mrv8335.cat 
>> mrv8335.inf 
>> MRV8335NT.sys 
>> MRV8335XP.sys 
>> 
>> and successfully installed them in ndiswrapper.  ndiswrapper 
>> -l gives: 
>> 
>> mrv8335 : driver installed 
>>         device (11AB:1FAA) present 
>> 
>> which looks good.  dmesg shows the following: 
>> 
>> [   20.592000] ndiswrapper: using IRQ 9$ 
>> [   20.864000] wlan0: ethernet device 00:14:6c:75:56:ca using NDIS driver: mrv83 
>> [   20.864000] wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2 
>> [   20.864000] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper$ 
>> [   20.904000] ndiswrapper: changing interface name from 'wlan0' to 'wlan1'$ 
>> 
>> [   29.520000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan1: link is not ready 
>> 
>> i don't know how to get rid of this last message.  route 
>> shows: 
>> 
>> Destination  Gateway  Genmask         Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 
>> 192.168.0.0  *        255.255.255.0   U     0      0   0   wlan1 
>> default      netgear  0.0.0.0         UG    0      0   0   wlan1 
>> 
>> and ifconfig: 
>> 
>> wlan1  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:6C:75:56:CA 
>>        inet addr:192.168.0.22  Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 
>>        UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1 
>>        RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 
>>        TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 
>>        collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
>>        RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) 
>>        Interrupt:9 Memory:38010000-38020000 
>> 
>> still, it doesn't work. 
> 
> Do you use a dynamic or static IP address. Also what does iwconfig say. 
> It looks like things are working.