Re: driver not working for netgear MA111

Charlie Herron <[email protected]> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 12:24:02 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.linux-wlan.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 12/9/05, Dave Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- Charlie Herron <[email protected]> wrote:
> > However, since I didn't need to run some legacy software anymore, I
> > really wanted to upgrade my aging system to the latest slack 10.2.
> > After the upgrade, I tried out the same scenario that worked from
> > above, and this time it didn't work.
>
> Not sure if this is the same issue, but see if this thread helps:
>
> MA111 problem at boot on Fedora FC3
> http://lists.linux-wlan.com/pipermail/linux-wlan-user/2005-June/013356.html
>
> Dave

Thanks!  After playing around with it for some time, I used the
following (from diff -u):

--- shared.orig 2005-12-09 08:57:42.000000000 -0500
+++ shared      2005-12-09 10:38:23.000000000 -0500
@@ -136,6 +136,8 @@
        fi

        # Enable the interface
+       $WLANCTL $1 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=disable
+       sleep 1
        result=`$WLANCTL $1 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable`
        if [ $? = 0 ] ; then
                eval $result