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On 07/08/10 09:27, Roland Tarver wrote:
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Rhia Knowles<rhiadratech@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Yeah unfortunately netgear is not enough information, as sometimes even different versions of the same model had different chipsets requiring different drivers. If you can give us the model and if given version number, we can look into what driver it requires.Model Number = WN511B Make = Netgear lspci lists it as: 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43XG (rev 01) Potentailly useful sites I have found so far: wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Wireless-HOWTO.html Many thanks Roly
Okay looks like this card isn't supported by the drivers included in the kernel...
http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_part.php?brandname=NetgearThere is a driver available directly from Broadcom, although I wonder if it's proprietary (hence not included in Debian?)...
http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.phpAs it happens it appears that Ubuntu (and quite possibly Linux Mint) would have this driver pre-compiled as a deb package in their repositories, at least the ReadMe file seems to suggest that Ubuntu has the driver (as a restricted driver).
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