Netgear wg311v3 and Fedora 8

[Randy Yates]

Hi List Members,

I'm trying to get my wg311v3 card working on my wife's home
desktop system:

  Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.23.1-49.fc8 #1 SMP Thu Nov 8 22:14:09 EST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I have a few questions:

  1. Should the Marvel Libertas driver work with this card? lspci -vvv
  returns

00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Netgear Unknown device 6b00
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
        Region 0: Memory at fbc00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Region 1: Memory at fbb00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

  2. If the answer to 1 is yes, then how do I install it? The
  installation didn't recognize the card, only the integrated wired
  ethernet interface, which it configured as eth0. That is, ifconfig
  after installation shows

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:F2:4C:38:25  
          inet addr:192.168.1.101  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::215:f2ff:fe4c:3825/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:360487 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:364827 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:42994405 (41.0 MiB)  TX bytes:216713105 (206.6 MiB)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0x2000 

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:18273 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:18273 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:9462892 (9.0 MiB)  TX bytes:9462892 (9.0 MiB)

  I presume that the way to add the card is by invoking
  system-config-network and then pressing the "New" button, selecting
  "Other Wireless Card" (there are no other entries in the edit box),
  and then selecting one of the cards in the "Adapter" list. However,
  the Netgear card isn't there and it isn't apparent which of the cards
  that are listed use the Marvel chipset. Which card should I select?

  Also, will this driver work with the 64-bit version of the kernel?

  3. If the answer to 1 is no, then let me state that I've had about 98
  percent success in getting the driver from Marvell for XP working
  using ndiswrapper. I see the interface using iwconfig, and I can do a
  scan via iwlist wlan0 scan and see several nearby networks. However,
  after configuring essid, channel number, and mode, and then issuing a
  "ifconfig wlan0 up" and "ifconfig eth0 down" command, I get
  disconnected. Any help there?

  4. I read on the ndiswrapper site that in order to use ndiswrapper the
  kernel is supposed to be built using no-4k stack sizes (i.e., the a
  stack size greater than 4k should be allowed). It states that to do
  this, you should configure the kernel (make menuconfig) selecting the
  Kernel Hacking... option and then NO4KStack (or somesuch). However, in
  the 2.6.23 kernel, that option seems to be missing. Could it be that
  the driver isn't operating correctly because the kernel is running
  with a 4k stack limitation?

  5. In either case of 2 or 3, should I be able to use the NetManager
  software to maintain the wired/wireless interfaces once I've got the
  the correct driver installed?

Well, that's all for now... Thanks for any help/pointers you can provide.
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