netgear wg511t - wireless network card

[Dan]

There are also madwifi RPMs of a similar nature on lvn.
http://rpm.livna.org/configuration.html

Axel Thimm wrote:

>On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:19:44PM -0800, bruce wrote:
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>>hi axel...
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>>i checked out the link you provided and i'm still confused...
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>>here are the steps i think i need (but i still don't know which card to
>>use!!)
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>>-do a "uname -r" and get the kernel for my system
>>-go to the atrpms site and get the required rpm
>>-install the rpm
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>There are two rpms, the one with kmdl+uname -r in the name, and the
>one w/o. The latter contains some userland appications.
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>>(is there only one rpm for RHEL 4?)
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>Please check the site at http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/madwifi/, you
>probably need:
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>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
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>adjust accordingsly, if you have an athlon (or even athlon 64) or smp.
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>>after i do the install of the madwifi-module rom, do i need to do anything
>>else? the web page mentioned sharutils....
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>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.
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>>do i need to do the "modprobe" ? when would i do it?
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>Not really, only for testing. Later the initscripts do the modprobe
>for you via the alias lines in modprobe.conf.
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>>when do i place my card in the slot?
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>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.
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>>how do i know if i even have the right/correct card for this rpm?
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>Use lspci, e.g.
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># lspci | grep Atheros
>03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
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>>lord give me windows!!!! just kidding.. but there really should be a better
>>way for this...
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>>a site/page that says, ... take this card, for this linux version.. and do
>>these steps...!!!!
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>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.
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>http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs
>http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo
>http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Distro/RedHat
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>>thanks
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>>-bruce
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>>From: Axel Thimm [mailto:Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net]
>>Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 6:24 PM
>>To: bedouglas at earthlink.net; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (Nahant)
>>Discussion List
>>Cc: 'For users of Fedora Core releases'; networkmanager-list at gnome.org
>>Subject: Re: netgear wg511t - wireless network card
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>>On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 06:18:14PM -0800, bruce wrote:
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>>>ok....
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>>>but can someone point me to something that takes me through how to get a
>>>wireless card up/runing on linux, step-by-step....
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>>http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Distro/RedHat
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>>>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?????
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>>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).
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>>>-bruce
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>>>From: nahant-list-bounces at redhat.com
>>>[mailto:nahant-list-bounces at 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:
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>>>>On Fri, February 17, 2006 3:59 pm, bruce wrote:
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>>>>>i'm looking to create a dell/rhel laptop, using netgear's wg511t
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>>network
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>>>>>card.
>>>>>
>>>>>i'm considering this card as it appears to be natively supported
>>>>>by rhel 4.  is this correct?
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>>>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.
>>>
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>>>>>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
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>>have
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>>>>>to. actual steps to accomplishing this would be greatly appreciated...
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>>>>No, it is not natively supported.  The only G-wireless card I know of
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>>that
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>>>>RHEL4 natively supports is the Centrino.  You can however use the
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>>madwifi
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>>>>drivers with these
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>>>>http://madwifi.org/
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>>>>It works quite well, I have a few CentOS4 kiosks running 24/7 with
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>>Netgear
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>>>>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.
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>>>There is madwifi support for RHEL4 (i386 and x86_64) at ATrpms.net,
>>>you need the madwifi and the madwifi-kmdl-`uname -r` packages:
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>>>    http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/madwifi/
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