Re: Newbie questions

Peter

pison>I am using a Netgear MA111 usb device with driver .0.2.2 and Fedora Core 4.
pison>Although you have a different device, you are getting exactly the same result as I did before I found a patch to /etc/wlan/shared which resolved the problem.

What version if pri f/w and sta f/w are you using now ? 

pison>
pison>David suggested it might be a problem with downloading the firmware. In my situation, after the download of the firware, the device did not then switch out of the firmware download mode.

What process did you use for the firmware download ? XP based, or prism2dl ?

I added the line you suggested, but it didn't help. When and how does this 
primitive (wlan_ebable) get executed ? At boot time only ? Can I not call 
it as a script after bootup ?

regards..
Vikram

pison>Therefore, it might be worth adding one line to the file:
pison>
pison>In /etc/wlan/shared: 
pison>        wlan_enable()
pison>        .......
pison>        nsdname=`wlan_nsdname $1`
pison>        if ! ${nsdname}_fwload $1 ; then
pison>                ${ECHO} "Firmware failed to load for device $1"
pison>                return 1
pison>        fi
pison>        # Enable the interface
pison>        # ADD THE FOLLOWING LINE
pison>        $WLANCTL $1 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=disable
pison>        result=`$WLANCTL $1 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable`
pison> 
pison>Then reboot and see what happens.