netgear wireless

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Amadeus W.M. wrote:

> COMPUSA has a good deal on a netgear wireless router: after countless
> mail-in rebates you can get a 54Mb wireless router (g) with a 54Mb
> wireless PCI card all for $40. From what I could gather, the pci card uses
> the madwifi driver. Would I have to manually download and compile the
> madwifi driver or does it come with FC2 or FC3?

Theres a source rpm. you install that, go into /usr/src/redhat/SPECS

do an rpmbuild -ba specfilename

then install the rpm for your kernel and you're done.

dag has the source rpm a number prebuilt kernel rpms...

http://dag.wieers.com/packages/kernel-module-madwifi/

> Are there rpms? I would
> like to know this before I actually go ahead and buy the card.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>

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