WG511 v3 WG511DCB.arm missing Win2k

Hi,

I installed the "made in china" v3 WG511 card under Win2k and it works
fine. I want to use it under Linux on the same machine (Sony notebook). I
have built the 2.4.28 kernel with associated Prism54 drivers and have
updated the pcmcia and hotplug packages. I have located and downloaded the
isl3890 firmware file.

Doesn't work under Linux. (the "well-known" reset errors on driver load).
1005=>cat /tmp/WG
Hi,

I installed the "made in china" v3 WG511 card under Win2k and it works
fine. I want to use it under Linux on the same machine (Sony notebook). I
have built the 2.4.28 kernel with associated Prism54 drivers and have
updated the pcmcia and hotplug packages. I have located and downloaded the
isl3890 firmware file.

Doesn't work under Linux. (the "well-known" reset errors on driver load).

I have scoured the web already and found that the reset errors are due to
the v3 "made in china" problem of having / not having a soft mac.

Suggestions are to use the WG511DCB.arm file from the
windows\system32\drivers directory in places of the isl3890 file.

Except that my Win2k installation doesn't have that file.

I have tried, in a vmware session on a different machine, installing the
driver software under XP (since people had reported the arm file being
there under XP) but again, no WG511DCB.arm file.

I've looked on the web and netgear's site to see if this file is extant.

Can't see it anywhere.

Can anyone help?

Kind regards

Derek Jones.

It won't work with prism54 as the internal chip is different from
previous versions. You have to use ndiswrapper. It works like a charm
with it.

Dear all,

> It won't work with prism54 as the internal chip is different from
> previous versions. You have to use ndiswrapper. It works like a charm
> with it.

You beat me to the punch replying. :-) I've only just caught up having
been working on this during the day and enjoying wireless connectivity.
Thanks for taking the time.

I had scratched my head over this this morning some more and tried the
WG511ICB.sys file with ndiswrapper, and, as you say, it works just fine!

For general info. to all:

The short of it I discovered was that the WG511DCB.arm file is now no
longer supplied with the China-based v3 cards. They rolled more of the
driver into the sys file instead (that from some quite old posts on the
prism lists I'd missed earlier).

Instead, you copy the wg511icb.sys and netwg511.inf files over from a
Windoze install to some directory under Linux, and then follow the
ndiswrapper instructions.

Kind regards

Derek Jones.