Re: netgear pcmcia card

["Jerry Feldman-2" <user=4@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:38:03 -0400 
"dan moylan" <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> 
> 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.