[SATLUG] Netgear MA111 Wireless USB Device

[Benjamin Barenblat]

Hello,
 
I am attempting to connect a Netgear MA111 wireless device to my machine via USB.  I found some instructions on LinuxQuestions.org.  They worked excellently on the first computer on which I installed the device (a Dell i686 P3 running Fedora Core 1 (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl)).  The driver built properly and installed the module "prism2_usb".  I was then able to use "redhat-config-network" to create device "wlan0", probe for a hardware address, enter a WEP key, and so forth.  Now, this computer is fully networked and runs perfectly.
 
Then, I tried to put a second device on a second computer (a Dell i686 P4 also running Fedora Core 1).  Everything worked perfectly up to Step 3 ("make config").  The configuration script reported that it appeared that the kernel had been rebuilt after installation and reminded me that the source that it built from had to be running.  I ignored the warning because I had never rebuilt the kernel itself (I had tried to rebuild the kernel from a copy of the source code), and continued with the instructions.  Everything worked wonderfully until I tried to use "redhat-config-network".  I had it create a new device, wireless-type, using prism2_usb.  It did, but when I tried to activate the new device, it said that the device was not present (although it was).  I tried rebuilding the driver and it diid the same thing; it still warned about the kernel appearing to have been rebuilt.  I thought that perhaps it was messing the configuration up, so I went into the source directory and ran "make
 distclean" to remove previous compilation data and then "make mrproper" to build the kernel source tree.  Then when I ran "make config" in the driver directory, it reported that
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Linux source tree /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl is incomplete or missing!
      The kernel header files are present, but not  the full source code.
      See the HOWTO for a list of FTP sites for the current kernel sources.
 
Configuration failed
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I then went to the Linux Kernel Archives and downloaded the Linux-2.4.22 source.  I unpacked the tarball into my /usr/src directory and tried configuring the driver with the new source.  I got the same message.
 
So now I'm stuck.  If anyone has any solution ideas (preferably without buying a new wireless device) they would be greatly appreciated.
 
Thanks