Re: Office Max $19 Microsoft adaptors

For those who were following this (if anyone) I finally got my card to
work correctly in RH9. First, I just had to add an entry for it in
/etc/pcmcia/config stating that the manufacturer id was and what module
to load for it. That worked fine, except the module v. 0.11 has
problems under a heavy load. Trying to transfer any large files over the
LAN caused to card to stop responding. Upgrading to the latest 2.4.26
kernel which includes the module v. 0.13d fixed this. Lastly,
/etc/init.d/pcmcia was trying to load pcmcia_core.o instead of just
pcmcia_core without the .o, so it wouldn't load the proper PCMCIA
drivers at startup. I'm not exactly sure what changed, I'm guessing
just using a straight kernel instead of Redhat's kernel changed
something. But, just taking out the .o fixed this.

Oh, and I got WEP working just fine, using Redhat's graphical network
config tool. And of course, now that it's set up via that, I can tell
where I would've had to edit to do it manually. I hate having to rely on
graphical tools :P

Justin

jsw@wadell.org wrote:
> Hello, this is your remote diagnostic center! We-all only speek texas,
> whatch all speak?
>
> I consider MAC a pretty good security fix, but I am happy to be blasted by
> the group (Arthur?). I REALLY would like to do a Friday on this, but I am
> drowning in Houston.
>
> J
>
>>Okay, long story short, I finally got it working after upgrading my
>>laptop to Fedora 2.
>>
>>So, any idea when we might be able to do Wireless Friday? I need to
>>learn about setting up security for wireless devices ASAP :) In
>>particular WEP and SSID. I imagine it's easy enough to change the
>>options on the basestation, but it's setting it up on the card in Linux
>>that i'm not so sure about.
>>
>>Anyway, all seems to be working good now, except the fact I don't really
>>have any security set up. I'm afraid to touch any of the options on the
>>access point for fear of it all the sudden not working. Right now my
>>only security consists of my limiting access by MAC address and leaving
>>it turned off when I'm not using it.
>>
>>Maybe I'll be able to figure out some more stuff later (like when it's
>>not 3:30 AM :) ) but I'd still be interested in getting some help at a
>>Friday Night thing. It's been forever since I've been there on Friday.
>>
>>Justin
>>
>>
>>
>>Jim wrote:
>>
>>>Using Fedora 2. Did you configure the adaptor as a network device? I
>>>will admit that I used the Gui to do the basic config. Once it was
>>>recognized, I set it up as wlan0. I was able to enter most of the info.
>>>Most important is to make sure the ESSID is ok. Look in
>>>/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. Note that this fill is hard linked to
>>>two others on RedHatish systems:
>>>
>>>[root@mister sysconfig]# find . -name '*eth0' -print
>>>./network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
>>>./networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0
>>>./networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth0
>>>
>>>so do NOT delete one, then replace it without fixing the links!
>>>
>>>Hope this helps
>>>
>>>Also, we might do a Friday on Wireless after I get out of this hell
>>>hole. Dee, wanna give it a go?
>>>
>>>Jim
>>>
>>>
>>>Justin Dieters wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Jim, what distro/kernel are you using? Anything special you had to do to
>>>>get it to work?
>>>>
>>>>I'm using Redhat 9.0, kernel 2.4.20, and all I get is:
>>>>unsupported card in socket 0
>>>>product info: "Microsoft", "Wireless Notebook Adapter MN-520", "",
>>>>"1.0.3"
>>>>manfid: 0x02d2, 0x0001 function: 6 (network)
>>>>
>>>>The lights come on and everything, but I can't get anything from
>>>>ifconfig. I can do "modprobe orinoco_cs" just fine, no errors aside
>>>
>>>>from what's listed above.
>>>
>>>>Justin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Jim wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Risked the $19. The one I got has the Linux friendly Orinoco chip set.
>>>>>Might want to get em fast. They are all the way to the right on the
>>>>>discount table in the front of the store!
>>>>>
>>>>>J
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Jun 26 18:46:03 mister cardmgr[1133]: socket 1: Microsoft Wireless
>>>>>Notebook Adapter MN-520 1.0.3
>>>>>Jun 26 18:46:04 mister cardmgr[1133]: executing: 'modprobe orinoco_cs
>>>>>2>&1'
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Received on Sun Jul 4 10:03:55 2004