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Re: [LUG] Netgear WG511T

 

john.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Posted by "John Hansen" <john.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> I have been trying my above wireless card in a Toshiba Satelitte Pro 460cdx as 
> well as in a Dell Latitude 500CPx. The card works fine with the Dell and 
> Windows98se but does not seem to work with Damn Small Linux v. 3.0.1 nor Kubuntu 
> 6.06. The Tosbiba does not seem to accept the Netgear with DSL.
>
> Any suggestions for get tyhe Netgear working with Linux would be appreciated.
>
> BTW I am a complete newbie with Linux.
>
> John Hansen
Hi John,

I have this card working in Xandros (Debian based).  I'm using the 
MADWifi module Tony mentioned.  It is as Tony said a 32 bit Cardbus 
card, so if your Toshie doesn't have 32 bit Cardbus capability I'm 
afraid you're out of luck.  However, some laptops (such as my Compaq 
Presario R3307EA have a PCMCIA Controller that Linux does not like to 
play with.  If that is the case with your laptop it is possibly still 
doable with a little bit of fiddling.  Best thing I can suggest to 
diagnose it is to insert the card into the laptop and then try 'lspci 
-v' (-v = verbose - gives a bit more info).  It should be possible then 
to see if the laptop is actually detecting the hardware at all, and what 
PCMCIA controller it has onboard.

Kind regards,

Julian

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