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Netgear WG511v2 (China)
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1 22260 07-27-2005
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100% of reviewers $29.99 9.0



Description: One of the later versions of Netgear's 802.11g cardbus network adapter. Backward compatible with "b" networks. Uses the Marvell chipset.
Keywords: netgear wireless w511
/sbin/lspci output: Ethernet controller: Marvell: Unknown device 1faa (rev 03)
Chipset: Marvell
Connection Type: cardbus


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Old 07-27-2005, 07:04 AM   #1
dracolich
 
Registered: Jul 2005
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 1,163

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $29.99 | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.11
Distribution: Slackware 10.1



I bought this card two days ago and just got it working. All my searching LQ and Google led me to ndiswrapper as the solution for this card. With the marvell chipset and "lspci -n" output of 11ab:1faa I browsed ndiswrapper's list and found someone had it working with version 1.1 and the win2k drivers from the cd. Yeah, it almost works. I couldn't set anything with iwconfig and therefore could never connect to my router. The same results occurred with ndiswrapper v1.2. After sleeping on it I decided to try the XP drivers and, BAM!, the SSID set, the link light stopped flashing and the activity light started blinking. I pinged my masqdial server and now I'm here! :) I rate this one a 9 because it does require ndiswrapper as there aren't any native linux drivers for Marvell, and because I've always had little to no trouble installing Netgear products.
 




  



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