Winterhart
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Posted: Feb. 28 2006,23:23 |
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I've an older computer (Pentium MMX 166, 3gig hard drive, mostly ISA slots, the works) which works like a dream and which I'm really hoping to make into a little print & fileserver. However, I'm having trouble setting up my wireless card (a fairly crucial part, as I'm running low on the number of additional cat5 cables I can string across my bedroom...). The card is a Netgear MA311, which although it's definitely on the "works out of the box" list in the wiki, doesn't seem to be detected anywhere that I look. There's an ISA wired NIC in the computer in addition to my IDE card, and ifconfig -a only turns up lo and eth0...which I presume is the ISA card.
I saw a reference to 'wlan0' here on the forums, but `ifconfig wlan0` just gives me 'device not found' errors, and wlan0 isn't found anywhere in dmesg.
I've never set up a wireless card from linux before, much less on a Debian-based system, so I'm a little lost. Is there anything that I can do to determine whether or not the card's even detected?
EDIT:
I just discovered the 'iwconfig' command (who knew? *headdesk*) and the card shows up there seemingly just fine. So there goes the question about whether or not it's detected...however, the other still remains:
What do I do to help that card get an IP? 'dhcpcd' doesn't seem to exist on this system, so I'm still at sea...
Many thanks!
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