[PLUG] Relative newbie needs help bringing wireless MN-520 on-line

[Alan]

On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 00:14, Roger Neyman wrote:
> Fairly new to Linux, but most things seem to be going well. That is, 
> except when I try to activate my wireless connection. I get:
> 
> cannot activate network device wlan0!
> prism2_cs device wlan0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.
> 
> In spite of the fact that cardcfg yields:
> 
> Socket 0:
>   product info: "NETGEAR", "FA411", "Fast Ethernet"
>   manfid: 0x0149, 0x0411
>   function: 6 (network)
> Socket 1:
>   product info: "Microsoft", "Wireless Notebook Adapter MN-520", "", "1.0.3"
>   manfid: 0x02d2, 0x0001\
>   function: 6 (network)
> 
> The same results happen when the FA411 card is not present.
> 
> I dug into linux-wlan-org before making my purchase and read a lot about 
> how to install this.
> 
> I'm fairly sure I have /etc/wlan/wlan.config and 
> /etc/wlan/wlanconfig-SSID correctly written and I've installed all three 
> packages for linux-wlan-ng v0.2.1.pre-14 and am running Fedora Core 1 
> (updated via yum to be pretty much current.)
> 
> Any pointers? advice? comments?

Try this:

http://linuxquestions.org/questions/history/89946

Some of the people there have gotten it to work.  It is a prism2 card,
so it should be usable.  (Unless the "Microsoft" portion is
conflicting.)

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