[olug] Wireless natworking with Netgear router

[jay at reboottheuser.com]

Unless it changed in a newer revision the WG511T card has the  
'Atheros' chipset
which is covered by the madwifi drivers.
http://madwifi.org/

Last time I checked, Turbo mode isnt supported, but you can go to 54G.


Quoting "Thomas D. Williamson" <twilliam at inebraska.com>:

> I have the same card. It requires a "wrapper" making use of Windows   
> drivers, as
> Netgear does not provide information to open source or create a Linux
> compatiable driver itself. I brought this up as a topic for a OLUG   
> meeting as I
> am not sure which drivers are to be used, these seem to be based on   
> XP, while I
> have 2000 drivers. I think they can be taken from the install disk.
>
> I would like a bit of a demo to walk through the process at some point.
>
> Tom Williamson
>
> Quoting Don Kauffman <dekauff at cox.net>:
>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I'm branching out of my comfort zone again and trying to set up a home
>> wireless network. The problem that I'm experiencing is trying to get my
>> wireless access card to recognize the fact that there is a wireless net
>> work. So far it doesn't seem to be picking up any signal what so ever.
>> (The card works fine in another setting so I don't think there's a
>> problem with the card -- it's probably the user!!) The router is showing
>> that it is putting out a signal so it's probably a misconfiguration
>> issue. My problem is trying to figure out where the misconfiguration
>> is.
>>
>> Here's the setup:
>>
>> Netgear WGR614 v6 54 Mbps router
>> Netgear wireless PCMCIA WG511T 108 Mbps card in a laptop running Ubuntu
>> 5.10
>>
>> I'm wired to the router with a desktop that is also running Ubuntu 5.10
>> (Breezy). I can get to the basic settings web page on the router with
>> firefox and change settings.
>>
>> I've made sure that the SSID's are the same for both and was trying to
>> experiment with the WEP settings which is now disabled in both.
>>
>> If I don't get it set up before Tuesday evening Jay may get a visit from
>> me!!
>>
>> Thanks for any assistance!
>>
>> Don K.
>>
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