RE: netgear wg511t - wireless network card

["bruce" <bedouglas earthlink net>]

hi all...

sorry to keep asking what are obviously really basic questions...

but how do i know what wireless card to even start with? i have both a
Airlink and a D-link wna-130 card. would either/both of these work with the
madwifi software?

also, after i get the rpms and install them, do i need to recompile/rebuild
the kernel for RHEL4?

thanks

-bruce


-----Original Message-----
From: Axel Thimm [mailto:Axel Thimm ATrpms net]
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 2:23 AM
To: bedouglas earthlink net; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (Nahant)
Discussion List
Cc: 'For users of Fedora Core releases'; networkmanager-list gnome org
Subject: Re: netgear wg511t - wireless network card


On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:19:44PM -0800, bruce wrote:
> hi axel...
>
> i checked out the link you provided and i'm still confused...
>
> here are the steps i think i need (but i still don't know which card to
> use!!)
>
> -do a "uname -r" and get the kernel for my system
> -go to the atrpms site and get the required rpm
> -install the rpm

There are two rpms, the one with kmdl+uname -r in the name, and the
one w/o. The latter contains some userland appications.

> (is there only one rpm for RHEL 4?)

Please check the site at http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/madwifi/, you
probably need:

http://dl.atrpms.net/all/madwifi-0.9.6.0-18.el4.at.i386.rpm
http://dl.atrpms.net/all/madwifi-kmdl-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL-0.9.6.0-18.el4.at.i686
.rpm

adjust accordingsly, if you have an athlon (or even athlon 64) or smp.

> after i do the install of the madwifi-module rom, do i need to do anything
> else? the web page mentioned sharutils....

No, nothing else needs to be installed, but now you must configure
modprobe.conf and create ifcfg-ath0. The madwifi wiki is very
elaborate on this.

> do i need to do the "modprobe" ? when would i do it?

Not really, only for testing. Later the initscripts do the modprobe
for you via the alias lines in modprobe.conf.

> when do i place my card in the slot?

Right at the beginning, it won't hurt. You'll need it the very latest
when you or the system tries to modprobe the module.

> how do i know if i even have the right/correct card for this rpm?

Use lspci, e.g.

# lspci | grep Atheros
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg
NIC (rev 01)

> lord give me windows!!!! just kidding.. but there really should be a
better
> way for this...
>
> a site/page that says, ... take this card, for this linux version.. and do
> these steps...!!!!

http://madwifi.org, I already posted a specific link to the RHEL
section. There is enough information specific for RHEL as well as
generic to the driver (just start on the front page) to allow you to
do anything with it.

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

>
> thanks
>
> -bruce
>
>
>
>
> From: Axel Thimm [mailto:Axel Thimm ATrpms net]
> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 6:24 PM
> To: bedouglas earthlink net; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (Nahant)
> Discussion List
> Cc: 'For users of Fedora Core releases'; networkmanager-list gnome org
> Subject: 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/
> >
>

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