fedora and netgear WG311 card

futurewizard · 03-15-2004, 09:36 PM

Hi folks

Ho acn I make this thing work. I'm new to linux.

Rohit

noeffred · 03-16-2004, 03:59 AM

well, what have your tried up to now? The card seems to work under Linux. (there are some references on this forum too.)

futurewizard · 03-16-2004, 11:19 AM

I looked up but could not get any regerence. First Q is where can I find drivers fr this card? I try to look in prism54.org seens they talk about WG511, not WG311.
1. I need drivers.
2. How to compile/install these.

I'm very new to linux and spoiled by windows. If you can plz help me.

noeffred · 03-16-2004, 11:54 AM

I don't own one of these cards, but it appears that the prism54.org website has the drivers, respectively the kernel patch you need. I suspect the two (WG311 and WG 511) are sharing the same chipset. One is a cardbus card and the other one is a PCI card.
Since you're coming freshly from windows, you might be a little confused by the fact that one driver works for a range of different hardware brands and even different type of cards (PCMCIA and PCI). You don't need the exact driver for each hardware, it's about the chipset powering the card.

Follow the instructions here, this will most probably work: http://prism54.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/pr...EADME?rev=HEAD

The right driver appears to be this: http://prism54.org/pub/linux/snapsho...latest.tar.bz2

hspahr · 03-22-2004, 08:44 AM

The prism driver seems not to be working with the wg311 card. As I read, the madwifi driver is supposed to work, but I didn´t got this on to work either.

I tried to install the rpm package found at http://dag.wieers.com/packages/kernel-module-madwifi but got "unreferenced symbols" while trying to insmod the modules.

So I tried to compile it myself and got the message "/root/madwifi/driver/if_ath_pci.c:38:20: opt_ah.h: No such file or directory" while compiling.

Did anyone get this to work?

irvken · 03-28-2004, 06:57 AM

http://prism54.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/pr...EADME?rev=HEAD

I don't really undetsand much of that at all - it's pretty much all gobbledygook for a non-technical person like myself. I managed up to make clean modules, but got so many error messages that i didn't know where to go from there -

I got

Quote:

make clean modules
make -C ksrc/ clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/sean/downloads/wg311/prism54-cvs-latest/ksrc'
rm -f *.o *.ko *~ core* .dep* .*.d .*.cmd *.mod.c *.a *.s .*.flags
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sean/downloads/wg311/prism54-cvs-latest/ksrc'
make -C ksrc/ modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/sean/downloads/wg311/prism54-cvs-latest/ksrc'
make -C /lib/modules/2.4.22-1-686/build SUBDIRS=/home/sean/downloads/wg311/prism54-cvs-latest/ksrc modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.4.22-1-686/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: Entering an unknown directorymake: Leaving an unknown directorymake[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sean/downloads/wg311/prism54-cvs-latest/ksrc'
make: *** [modules-all] Error 2

what does all this mean?

DigitalVixen · 03-28-2004, 07:15 AM

Hspahr do this and it'll will work;
``cp /root/madwifi/hal/linux/i386-elf.opt_ah.h /root/madwifi/hal/linux/opt_ah.h''.

I wrote a HOW-TO for madwifi on this forum, you should read that.

Irvken you have defined the wrong directory for your kernel sources.
I haven't tried the prism drivers myself so I don't know what the install procedure looks like and can't say where you should look, but to me it looks like it's trying to find your kernel sources and is looking in the wrong directory.