Netgear MA311 Wireless PCI Works

[Thomas H. George,,,]

Since I previously posted Wireless Frustration I feel obligated to 
report that the Netgear MA311 Wireless PCI card worked right out of the 
box.  My system is Debian Testing with a 2.4.20 kernel and 
linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre10 using the supplied wlan.conf scripts.  The 
only detail I haven't yet worked out is re-connecting after bootup. 
Presently I must manually enter

   ifconfig wlan0 192.168.2.100
   route add default gw 192.168.2.1
I tried adding iface wlan0 inet static and the known addresses in 
/etc/network/interfaces but still must make the manual entries.

My earlier struggles were with the Actiontec Wireless USB Adapter which 
is known to work on other linux systems.  It undoubtedly will work with 
Debian too but, after an month of struggling with it, it was such a joy 
to install the Netgear card, switch the prism2 setting from usb to pci, 
and have a wireless connection immediately.

Tom George

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