[olug] Wireless natworking with Netgear router

[Thomas D. Williamson]

Thanks for the site, this looks a lot simpler in comparison to the other method.

Tom Williamson


Quoting 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.
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> OLUG mailing list
> >> OLUG at olug.org
> >> http://lists.olug.org/mailman/listinfo/olug
> >>
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > OLUG mailing list
> > OLUG at olug.org
> > http://lists.olug.org/mailman/listinfo/olug
> >
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> OLUG mailing list
> OLUG at olug.org
> http://lists.olug.org/mailman/listinfo/olug
>