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Netgear WAG511 (a/g/b)
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Description: The Netgear WAG511 has an Atheros chipset as shown in this list (provided curteousy of Finegan's Thread).

The card seems to work great, I don't get dropped connections ever, and with the script I picked up from the madwifi-faq located on the madwifi homepage:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi

Which brings me to my next point:
You will [generically, there may other options on a per distro basis which I'll cover at the end] have to grab the CVS release of the madwifi drivers for this card. Follow the instructions provided on the madwifi-faq or the madwifi homepage on how to go about this. Once you get them compiled, it's simply a matter of modprobing up the modules, as is covered in the madwifi-faq mentioned above.

Gentoo:
On gentoo, it was even easier than that. I simply needed to emerge the madwifi drivers:
emerge madwifi-driver
Don't forget to emerge wireless-tools as well:
emerge wireless tools
And finally, I grabbed this script:
http://www.zippysoft.com/linux/net.ath0
Which is linked to from the bottom of the madwifi-faq.
And from there it's a simply:
/etc/init.d/net.ath0 start
Of course you will likely also want to grab the /etc/conf.d/net script that was nicely created for you from:
http://rsm.demon.co.uk/~roy/downloads/net
So you can configure the card ;) The entire thread where I found that can be found:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=122435
Then to have it start on subsequent bootups:
rc-update add net.ath0 default
And bam! Wireless networking ;)

Cool
Keywords: 802.11a 802.11b 802.11g wireless netgear atheros 802.1x
/sbin/lspci output: 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Unknown device 168c:0013 (rev 01)
Chipset: Atheros
Connection Type: Cardbus/PCMCIA


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Old 10-27-2004, 06:31 PM   #1
 
Registered: Dec 1969
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.8-r10
Distribution: gentoo



Worked great after I emerged net-wireless/madwifi-driver. I didn't even need to rebuild the kernel (though I do need to re-emerge for each kernel, after changing the /usr/src/linux symlink). I had to set the mode=2 (`/usr/sbin/iwpriv ath0 mode 2`) in the init scripts, otherwise it wasn't scanning.

I've only had it for about a week, but no hitches so far. The lights tend to blink unceasingly, which is kinda annoying, but nothing a piece of tape won't fix :)

For the curious, here's the output of `iwpriv ath0`:
ath0 Available private ioctl :
setoptie (8BE8) : set 256 byte & get 0
getoptie (8BE9) : set 0 & get 256 byte
setkey (8BE2) : set 60 byte & get 0
delkey (8BE4) : set 7 byte & get 0
setmlme (8BE6) : set 10 byte & get 0
addmac (8BEA) : set 1 addr & get 0
delmac (8BEC) : set 1 addr & get 0
chanlist (8BEE) : set 32 byte & get 0
setparam (8BE0) : set 2 int & get 0
getparam (8BE1) : set 1 int & get 1 int
turbo (0001) : set 1 int & get 0
get_turbo (0001) : set 0 & get 1 int
mode (0002) : set 1 int & get 0
get_mode (0002) : set 0 & get 1 int
authmode (0003) : set 1 int & get 0
get_authmode (0003) : set 0 & get 1 int
protmode (0004) : set 1 int & get 0
get_protmode (0004) : set 0 & get 1 int
mcastcipher (0005) : set 1 int & get 0
get_mcastcipher (0005) : set 0 & get 1 int
mcastkeylen (0006) : set 1 int & get 0
get_mcastkeylen (0006) : set 0 & get 1 int
ucastciphers (0007) : set 1 int & get 0
get_uciphers (0007) : set 0 & get 1 int
ucastcipher (0008) : set 1 int & get 0
get_ucastcipher (0008) : set 0 & get 1 int
ucastkeylen (0009) : set 1 int & get 0
get_ucastkeylen (0009) : set 0 & get 1 int
keymgtalgs (0015) : set 1 int & get 0
get_keymgtalgs (0015) : set 0 & get 1 int
rsncaps (0016) : set 1 int & get 0
get_rsncaps (0016) : set 0 & get 1 int
roaming (000C) : set 1 int & get 0
get_roaming (000C) : set 0 & get 1 int
privacy (000D) : set 1 int & get 0
get_privacy (000D) : set 0 & get 1 int
countermeasures (000E) : set 1 int & get 0
get_countermeas (000E) : set 0 & get 1 int
dropunencrypted (000F) : set 1 int & get 0
get_dropunencry (000F) : set 0 & get 1 int
wpa (000A) : set 1 int & get 0
get_wpa (000A) : set 0 & get 1 int
driver_caps (0010) : set 1 int & get 0
get_driver_caps (0010) : set 0 & get 1 int
maccmd (0011) : set 1 int & get 0
wme (0012) : set 1 int & get 0
get_wme (0012) : set 0 & get 1 int
hide_ssid (0013) : set 1 int & get 0
get_hide_ssid (0013) : set 0 & get 1 int
ap_bridge (0014) : set 1 int & get 0
get_ap_bridge (0014) : set 0 & get 1 int
inact (0017) : set 1 int & get 0
get_inact (0017) : set 0 & get 1 int
inact_auth (0018) : set 1 int & get 0
get_inact_auth (0018) : set 0 & get 1 int
inact_init (0019) : set 1 int & get 0
get_inact_init (0019) : set 0 & get 1 int



 
Old 07-13-2006, 08:41 PM   #2
ubermenschx
 
Registered: Jun 2006
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.15-26-amd64-generic
Distribution: Ubuntu


Got mine today and it ran out of the box...good buy.
 
Old 02-17-2007, 07:34 AM   #3
spacegypsy
 
Registered: Apr 2006
Distribution: Ubuntu Studio, Kubuntu, Debian
Posts: 18

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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.15-28-386
Distribution: ubuntu 6.06 dapper


Same as ubermenschx

Nice card, very sensitive.
The installation was even easier in ubuntu than in windows XP .
Real plug and play.
 




  



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