NetGear WG121

Marco Milanesi <[email protected]> Thu, 1 Dec 2005 04:37:48 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.linux.linux-wlan.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
hi all,

   I have purchased this model of netgear.

here is the output of lsusb:

	kpanic@vibraspina ~$ lsusb |grep -i netgear
	Bus 004 Device 005: ID 0846:4210 NetGear, Inc. WG121 WiFi (v2)
	kpanic@vibraspina ~$

I loaded prism2_usb:

	modprobe prism2_usb prism2_doreset=1

dmesg output:

	prism2usb_init: prism2_usb.o: 0.2.2 Loaded
	prism2usb_init: dev_info is: prism2_usb

tried this with no success:

	vibraspina:/home/kpanic# wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable
	wlanctl-ng: No such device
	vibraspina:/home/kpanic#

here is the list of packages installed on my debian unstable ppc:

vibraspina:/home/kpanic# dpkg -l|grep linux-wlan
ii  linux-wlan-ng                          0.2.2+dfsg-6                  utilities for wireless prism2 cards
ii  linux-wlan-ng-doc                      0.2.2+dfsg-6                  documentation for wlan-ng
ii  linux-wlan-ng-firmware                 0.2.2+dfsg-6                  firmware files used by the linux-wlan-ng driver
ii  linux-wlan-ng-firmware-files           0.2.2+dfsg-6                  firmware files used by the linux-wlan-ng driver
ii  linux-wlan-ng-modules-2.6.14-1-powerpc 0.2.2+dfsg-6                  drivers for wireless prism2 cards
ii  linux-wlan-ng-source                   0.2.2+dfsg-6                  linux-wlan-ng driver

any hints?

ciao,
Marco