Netgear MA521 problems

**okeydokey** · 04-21-2004, 06:45 AM

ok, im a linux newbe...

I installed knoppis to my harddrive, and i have a Netgear Ma521 802.11b card. i can not get linux to see the card. i found a post that said the chipset was realtek 8081, so i got the linux drivers off of the realtek site.
the drivers that im getting are for a kernel version 2.4.20-8 and i have 2.4.24-xfs. but when i run the command "insmod -f" it forces the driver... and it runs script or something for about a half the screen, and it stops... and tells me that 'segmentation fault' is there something im missing??? if i try to repeat the command it tells me that ' insmod: a module named rtl8081_24x.o already exists' dose this mean the driver loaded? i still cant get my wifi card in knoppix??? any help is great!!!! Thanks

~Matt

**OErjan** · 04-21-2004, 06:19 PM

have you tried to modprbe for it? open a console and type: modprobe modulemame.
in your case

Code:

modprobe  rtl8081_24x

Code:

lsmod

lists loaded modules, see if yours is there.
typing dmesg in a console will give any new events in the bottom,
dmesg will cause a mass of text to sroll by, when it stops anything recent is there. if you want to see it all type dmesg|less then go upp and down in the text with arows (spacebar gives whole "screenfulls" at a time).
post any error messages.
sorry if i have no ready solution, i have no such card so i cant help directly just give suggestions.

**okeydokey** · 04-22-2004, 12:47 AM

when i typed dmsg in, all the text scrolled... and at the bottom, there was the entery for the wireless card... under the wireless section the only error that i could find was ' unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 000e00b5' and that was the only error that i could see... now when i ran modprobe rtl8081_24x it said ' can not locate modprobe rtl8081_24x'

Any ideas???
thanks
~Matt

**OErjan** · 04-22-2004, 07:34 PM

lsmod will list al modules loaded.
modules are roughly speaking the "driver" under linux.
hmm, the netgear card i use works. hmm, it is a pcmcia so it might differ.

**elnator** · 05-07-2004, 04:10 PM

Similar problem but I'm not installing knoppix to my HD, I'm using it from CD until I'm more familliar with LINUX...

I got my video working fine (finally) on my widescreen display but I can't get my MA521 Netgear Wireless PCMCIA NIC to connect in knoppix. The on-board LAN Card works fine, however.

Any help on getting knoppix to use the NetGear PCMCIA Wireless MA521 would be much appreciated. I'm an utter knoppix noob and also EXTREMELY rusty at Linux as well (been over 10 years since I used it).

Thanks in advance!

**OErjan** · 05-07-2004, 06:24 PM

jikes, you where there in the early years of Linux then (1991 was linux birthyear) doesn't the comands aove give any info?

**elnator** · 05-07-2004, 08:39 PM

Ya they help a bit. Was wondering if there's anything special within knoppix that I need to know. The user above talked about installing realtek drivers in knoppix... I'm using the Knoppix LiveCD and I do not know how to go about installing drivers in that.

Yeah I was around when Linux came out

We originally used a 'spare' copy of Unix. We switched to Linux in '92 or '93 (can't remember the exact date).

At any rate it's been, literally, 10-11 years since I monkeyed with Linux. (longer for pure Unix)