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-The Netgear MA101 is a compact USB 1.1 wireless adapter with support for Windows, Linux and (at least one flavour of) BSD. 
-!!! Vitals 
-* '''Manufacturer :''' Netgear 
-* '''Model :''' MA101 
-* '''Type :''' USB Wireless Adapter 
-* '''External Antenna Jack:''' None (comes with a small dipole antenna) 
-* '''Chipset:''' Atmel 
-* '''Power :''' 13dB 
-* '''Receive Sensitivity :''' 
-** -84dBm@1Mbps 
-** -87dBm@2Mbps 
-** -89dBm@5.5Mbps 
-** -91dBm@11Mbps 
-* '''Drivers URL :''' See below 
-* '''Available New :''' 
-* '''Average Price :''' ~ $150 
-* '''Vitals last updated :''' 5 June 2003 
-!! Official Details 
-(http://www.netgear.com/products/prod_details.asp?prodID=105&view=hm Product Details) states the following... 
-11Mbps wireless desktop PC networking Reliable, 802.11b standards-based networking USB Powered, No need to open the PC WEP encryption to ensure privacy. Supports Win98/Me/2000 5 year limited warranty 
-(for Linux support - see below) 
-!! Pictures 
-{http://www.netgear.com/images/products/large/ma101_big.jpg MA101} 
-!! Operating Systems 
-!!! Windows 
-Information here (TBA) 
-Comes with drivers for Microsoft Windows 98/2000 and Millennium on CD-ROM. 
-* If you experience problems under win2k, the Belkin F5D6050 driver can be tweeked to work. 
-* Does not seem to work under win2k3 server 
-**  Netgear claim win2k3 driver is in the pipeline (23/06/03) 
-!!! Linux 
-There is a (http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/news.html GPL driver) for the various Atmel-based USB drivers: 
-I strongly recommend reading the (http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/howto/howto.html HOWTO) as it is invaluable for getting the MA101 up and running with Linux. 
-Note that there are two revisions of the MA101 (you can tell by looking at the sticker under the unit). 
-* Rev A doesn't seem to be supported by the 'official' driver anymore as the developer dropped Intersil support: use the 20021209 release if you have a Rev A unit. 
-* Rev B (Atmel AT76C50x chipset) is definitely supported. 
-I have noted packet loss of ~ 40% when running the 029921209 driver with a Red Hat 2.4.18 kernel. Upgrading to 2.4.20 and the 2.1.1 driver is meant to fix that, but I found that setting "RTS threshold" to 200 with the lvnet tool (that comes with the driver) solved the problem. 
-!!! BSD's 
-The OpenBSD atu driver supports the MA101, see the atu(4) manpage for more info: 
-(http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=atu&sektion=4 atu manpage) 
-!! Firmware 
-TBA 
-!! Adding an external antenna 
-There is no external antenna socket, and the MA101 comes with a five year warranty; if you're happy to void the warranty, adding an external antenna is quite easy. 
-(http://www.nodomainname.co.uk/MA101/MA101.htm Nodomainname) has more information. 
-There is also information on creating a (http://www.nodomainname.co.uk/cantenna3/cantenna3.htm USB cantenna), which you could do with a MA101 
-!! Misc Notes 
-* Quite small: 107 x 87 x 24mm 
-* USB 1.1 and happily runs over long (for USB) distances. I have it working reliably over > 6 metres and am going to test it over 10 metres next. 
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