pclinux and wg511t wireless card

Anyone know how to get my netgear wg511t in my dell laptop to work with
PCLinux or any other linux version?

Z.K.

Z.K. wrote:

> Anyone know how to get my netgear wg511t in my dell laptop to work with
> PCLinux or any other linux version?
>
> Z.K.
You need a recent version of the Prism54 driver. The PCI version of
Prism54 has been in recent versions of the 2.6 kernels, I am not sure
of the USB version (which is what you need) is in the kernel or if
you need to build the module externally.

David
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David Goodenough wrote:
> Z.K. wrote:
>
>> Anyone know how to get my netgear wg511t in my dell laptop to work with
>> PCLinux or any other linux version?
>>
>> Z.K.
> You need a recent version of the Prism54 driver. The PCI version of
> Prism54 has been in recent versions of the 2.6 kernels, I am not sure
> of the USB version (which is what you need) is in the kernel or if
> you need to build the module externally.
>
> David
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Why would I need a usb version? My netgear card is a pcmcia card. I
know a few people have said to use the madwifi driver which is in the
PClinux, but it is a PCI version and I was unsure of whether that would
work. But, I will check out the Prism54 driver since I did not know
about that one.

Z.K.

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 01:33:47 +0000, Z.K. wrote:

>>> Anyone know how to get my netgear wg511t in my dell laptop to work with
>>> PCLinux or any other linux version?

>> You need a recent version of the Prism54 driver. The PCI version of

No, he doesn't.

> Why would I need a usb version? My netgear card is a pcmcia card. I
> know a few people have said to use the madwifi driver which is in the
> PClinux, but it is a PCI version and I was unsure of whether that would
> work. But, I will check out the Prism54 driver since I did not know
> about that one.

The madwifi driver is indeed what you need (not the prism54). That PCMCIA
card works perfectly with the madwifi driver (it uses the "Atheros"
chipset). I'm typing this to you now from my laptop using that card and
driver (on Slackware Linux). I have also used it in Mandrake. Works
great.

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Z.K. wrote:

> David Goodenough wrote:
>> Z.K. wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone know how to get my netgear wg511t in my dell laptop to work with
>>> PCLinux or any other linux version?
>>>
>>> Z.K.
>> You need a recent version of the Prism54 driver. The PCI version of
>> Prism54 has been in recent versions of the 2.6 kernels, I am not sure
>> of the USB version (which is what you need) is in the kernel or if
>> you need to build the module externally.
>>
>> David
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> Why would I need a usb version? My netgear card is a pcmcia card. I
> know a few people have said to use the madwifi driver which is in the
> PClinux, but it is a PCI version and I was unsure of whether that would
> work. But, I will check out the Prism54 driver since I did not know
> about that one.
>
> Z.K.
Sorry I must be suffering from number soup. Too many part numbers.

David
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