prism2_CS: Netgear MA401 under Feisty

[martinwolters]

Hi,

I am trying to get a Netgear MA401 (not MA401RA) on a Toshiba laptop going. I found several hints that at least in the past this required the prism2_cs driver, but that the orionoco_cs driver is now recommended. I actually didn't manage to get the prism2_cs module from any official ubuntu side.

However, I only got the card working partially with the orinoco_cs, meaning the card seems to connect and the routing seems to adjust fine, but I can't even ping the gateway. Any experiences, comments, hints, questions?

-M

~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:0D:34:F9:F4
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:AB:15:E6:87
inet addr:192.168.0.103 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::230:abff:fe15:e687/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:59 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:8609 (8.4 KiB)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0xc100

eth0:avah Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:0D:34:F9:F4
inet addr:169.254.9.103 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1730 (1.6 KiB) TX bytes:1730 (1.6 KiB)

$ route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0 0 eth1
default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1
default * 0.0.0.0 U 1000 0 0 eth0

~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"APTOS" Nickname:"Prism I"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:0D:88:C4:11:0B
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity:1/3
Retry limit:8 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Power Managementff
Link Quality=70/92 Signal level=-34 dBm Noise level=-146 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:238 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

~$ ip route get 192.168.0.1
192.168.0.1 dev eth1 src 192.168.0.103
cache mtu 1500 advmss 1460 hoplimit 64


~$ lsmod
...
orinoco_cs 16900 1
orinoco 43028 1 orinoco_cs
hermes 8448 2 orinoco_cs,orinoco
...


PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.0.103 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.0.103 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable