Re: netgear wg511t - wireless network card



On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 06:18:14PM -0800, bruce wrote:
> ok....
> 
> but can someone point me to something that takes me through how to get a
> wireless card up/runing on linux, step-by-step....

http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Distro/RedHat

> and can someone explain to me why RHEL appears to have a list of
> cards/adapters, if it doesn't really natively support any cards that i can
> find for the box?????

Because it is closed source and thus not supportable by the
distribution vendor unless the vendor has a partnership or some other
special arrangement with the authors (like for java and acroread on
the extra CD).

> -bruce
> 
> 
> From: nahant-list-bounces redhat com
> [mailto:nahant-list-bounces redhat com]On Behalf Of Axel Thimm
> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 4:19 PM
> To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (Nahant) Discussion List
> Subject: Re: netgear wg511t - wireless network card
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 04:02:28PM -0500, Jay Lee wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, February 17, 2006 3:59 pm, bruce wrote:
> > > i'm looking to create a dell/rhel laptop, using netgear's wg511t network
> > > card.
> > >
> > > i'm considering this card as it appears to be natively supported
> > > by rhel 4.  is this correct?
> 
> The one I have (it's a bit old) has an atheros chipset in it. But
> netgear is known to upgrade hardware w/o changing the market name.
> 
> > > can someone tell me the actual steps (or point me to a site with the
> > > actual steps) to get the card up/running on the dell/rhel system.
> > >
> > > when i plug the card into the slot, nothing seems to happen...
> > >
> > > i'd prefer not to have to install drivers/rebuild kernel if i don't have
> > > to. actual steps to accomplishing this would be greatly appreciated...
> >
> > No, it is not natively supported.  The only G-wireless card I know of that
> > RHEL4 natively supports is the Centrino.  You can however use the madwifi
> > drivers with these
> >
> > http://madwifi.org/
> >
> > It works quite well, I have a few CentOS4 kiosks running 24/7 with Netgear
> > 311T's (same card but PCI interface).  They work quite well, I just have
> > to make sure I recompile the madwifi after updating the kernel or they
> > won't get any connectivity.
> 
> There is madwifi support for RHEL4 (i386 and x86_64) at ATrpms.net,
> you need the madwifi and the madwifi-kmdl-`uname -r` packages:
> 
>     http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/madwifi/
> 

-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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