getting a wireless netgear WG511T card to work on FC

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 05:16:32AM -0700, bruce wrote:
> Thanks Axel!
> 
> I noticed in your reply, the Rpms appear to be for FC5, I'm assuming that I
> would use FC4 Rpms, or would I still download the FC5 Rpms for the madwifi
> apps?

No, just replace every occurence of fc5 with fc4. Don't mix packages
built for different FC versions.

> Also, when I try to look at my FC4 on my dell laptop, I only see the eth
> interface for the wired/eth connection. Where/How would I see the network
> interface/card when it's plugged in? I know.. really basic
> questions/knowledge here...

Check out the docu at madwifi.org. In doubt always follow the
documentation referring to "madwifi-ng".

> Also, even though I've looked at the madwifi site (and others) I'm not sure
> as to the process for the RPMs when I get them. Will I have to rebuild the
> linux kernel? Will I have to have the Linux development/source files? (I
> don't have these on the system.) Will I have to build/compile the madwifi
> RPMs?

No, simply install them, no need for kernel rebuilds or installing
kernel-devel and the like. The packages contain userland binaries and
kernel modules already built for the kernel you install them for. You
need to install new kernel modules again whenever a new kernel is
released (e.g. always install foo-kmdl-<uname -r>).

> Thanks
> 
> -Bruce
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Axel Thimm [mailto:thimm at neu.nirvana]On Behalf Of Axel Thimm
> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 10:26 PM
> To: bedouglas at earthlink.net; For users of Fedora Core releases
> Cc: 'Filianx'
> Subject: Re: getting a wireless netgear WG511T card to work on FC
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 11:59:44AM -0700, bruce wrote:
> > duh!!!
> >
> > sorry about that.. i know that there are RPMs.. I've looked at the
> > atRPMs/etc.. I don't know which ones to grab!!!
> >
> > I also don't know that this is the end/start of the process...
> >
> > I was/am hoping that I can find someone who could tell me exactly which
> RPMs
> > to grab, as well as the process required to get everything running...
> 
> The easiest is to let smart/yum/apt do their job with something like
> 
> yum install madwifi madwifi-`uname -r`
> 
> (you need to activate atrpms in your depsolver setup).
> 
> If you need to download by hand then probably you will need (for i686,
> non-smp, non-xen0):
> 
> http://dl.atrpms.net/all/madwifi-0.9.0-23.rhfc5.at.i386.rpm
> http://dl.atrpms.net/all/madwifi-kmdl-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5-0.9.0-23.rhfc5.at.i6
> 86.rpm
> http://dl.atrpms.net/all/madwifi-hal-kmdl-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5-0.9.0-23.rhfc5.a
> t.i686.rpm
> 
> > It took me awhile to find a card that seems to be supported by the madwifi
> > app...
> >
> > -bruce
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Filianx [mailto:filianx at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 11:51 AM
> > To: bedouglas at earthlink.net; For users of Fedora Core releases
> > Subject: Re: getting a wireless netgear WG511T card to work on FC
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 06/06/06, bruce <bedouglas at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Hi...
> >
> > I have FC4 and a netgear card WG511T. Can someone walk me through
> > (small/slow details) on what I need to get from madwifi...
> >
> > I'm assuming that it's a number of RPMs that have to be
> fetched/installed..
> > But I'm not sure which ones from looking at the madwifi site.
> >
> > uname -a
> > 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 6 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > -bruce
> > bedouglas at earthlink.net
> >
> 

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