I am completely new to slackware, and I cannot seem to get my WG511v1 netgear wireless card to even light up. I tried several things so far to no avail just following tutorials, I was wondering if someone, keeping in mind that I am brand new to linux altogether, could give me a link to or direct assistance on solving this problem.

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I currently have been trying to install ndiswrapper, I got the files to my slackware computer from another PC, and I unzipped them, and followed the instructions in the install file, and when I tried make or make install, it went through the motions and then results wth a few errors, I cant copy/paste them cause their on another computer so I'll give a vague recurring one.

#error "gcc 3.4 or newer should be used when compiling this model"

I have the driver for my netgear wireless card with the .inf file and the .sys file and ready to proceed but all further instructions require that ndiswrapper work.

Thank you.

What version of gcc are you using to compile it?
should tell you. if it wants gcc 3.4 to compile it, then you'll have to get that
You can download it here as slackware packages, and transfer them across if you can't get the net on that pc --
http://www.slackware.it/en/pb/search...rent&t=1&q=gcc
You'll need most (all?) of the ones on that page except the last one I'd think.

Thanks, but for the record I went to ndiswrapper 1.15 which work on 3.3 and went through all the motionsuntil modprobe ndiswrapper was supposed to configure wlan0 and it didnt...that doesnt seem to do anything...so I'm going to try out the newer version of ndiswrapper and see if that works...thanks for the link and sorry fo being completely elementary on this but how do I install those packages?

modprobe ndiswrapper in itself won't configure wlan0 -- it loads the driver, then you have to configure it.
First, check it's loaded (after modprobe ndiswrapper of course) with lsmod, and you should see it in the list. If not, do a dmesg and read the last few lines.
If ndiswrapper loads fine, you should be able to configure wlan0 with ifconfig and iwconfig (or the kde wireless tool for that matter).
If not, download those packages, and put them in a folder of their own.
Then you can do (as root) installpkg *.tgz
Once you get ndiswrapper loaded, you should be able to configure wlan0. Let me know if you need help with that

I know it doesnt configured wlan0 itself, since I'm so new to linux, (a couple days ago) I'm just trying to make this a learning process and in the process I'm probably usnig the wrong vocabulary so its hard to describe my issue. When I say modprobe ndiswrapper didnt configure wlan0, I meant when I already tried iwconfig or ifconfig or dmesg or lsmod I get no output of anything nivolving wlan0, iwconfig just shows lo, eth0, eth1, and no wlan0 at all. So I'm going to try to install those packages and start over with ndiswrapper-1.19 and see if that works, lets hope it does!

You might also consider the fact that it's very naughty to double post the same problem.

Ah I see. Well, let's hope it does.
Good luck with it!

Yeah, I understand that completely. The problem was that as this issue unfolded (I'd reach a major issue that I couldnt solve, decided to ask a question on the forum), then a half hour later I'd solve that issue and run into another, so I'd reach a dead end with that and try to mod my original post to suit the new problem, but all the people that would have helped me had already viewed it. I went to delete the old post but I didnt see an option to do so.

Grr.