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Re: [LUG] Netgear WG511T

 

try madwifi driver

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Edwin.




From: Julian Hall <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:34:08 +0100
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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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