Netgear Wireless Card

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 06:24 +0000, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On 02/13/2005 02:40:09 PM, Johnathan Bailes wrote:
> 
> > 
> > No official support, do a google on the madwifi driver and the word
> > sourceforge.  There is a driver that works with it.  I know because I
> > am using it.  The pain is that if you use such a card you will need  
> > to
> > recompile this driver every time you get a new kernel.
> > 
> > It works fine for me but I was a silly bugger and did not bother
> > asking unlike you who seems to be getting his ducks in a row before
> > making a purchase.
> > 
> > Do a search on the archives of this list.  Someone just asked about
> > wireless support and what card was best just recently.
> 
> I'm not sure if the offer is still going on - but CompUSA was selling  
> AT&T Plug&Share 6500G (a pci card, for desktops) for $13.00 (web order  
> only) - it's a 802.11g card (54Mbps - well, theoretically 54Mbps ...)  
> and it works with madwifi.
> 
> Don't know if they have the pcmcia card on sale as well.
> 
Don't know if this is the same card you have.  You will have to check
the chipset.
However, this site claims support for the Netgear WG311 card 

  http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz is the
compatibility list and the drivers are available at
  http://www.linux-wlan.org/


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> Michael A. Peters
> http://mpeters.us/
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