netgear wg111 best linux distro

caredude · 03-31-2006, 06:27 PM

Im sure im posting this in the wrong forum but here it goes. I desperatley want to run linux. I spent 2 week trying to get several distros to work with my netgear wg111 card, to no avail. I just read something about prism 54 chipsets and how there nearly impossibe to get to work. I followed all the directions on several pages only to have them not work. Is there a distro that makes this set up easy. Im at the point where ive given up with linux, but hold out hope that somewhere theres a distro that will work. Everything else worked great
but but that. even my sound card vid card all work fine. Im a mid level user and am really upset that all these distros talk about how easy they are yet the process to set up a wifi card looks like high level physics. Im not a programmer but I can figure stuff out about 99
percent of the time. thanks if theres a good explation out there and good distro point me in the right direction. At this point im already saving up for Vista if easy linux means 2 months of work just to get a
internet connection.

Caeda · 03-31-2006, 07:22 PM

According to what I can see on that unit it's a USB wireless g card.

The other thing I see is 5000 people saying it doesnt work and there's just no reason to mess with trying it.

Linux does not mean 2 months of work just to get an internet connection.

Linux does mean that when you buy things like wireless card, you can't get the cheapest easiest card (crap) on the shelf which the manufactured made as cheaply as possibly. You just have to use hardware that is self contained rather than relying on a windows driver to do the work.

caredude · 04-01-2006, 05:46 PM

I was provided the netgear by my cable company but, I dont think netgear is crap. Setup is easy on windows, espically for someone new to wireless. My dissapoitment is in the fact that since netgear is so popular that it would be a shoe in for linux. My entire sysyem was built for linux belive it or not, and i mean about 3 years ago for linux. a lot less support then there is now. Well that answer my question though. Windows wins. I bow to the god of microsoft. Whats the point of using a os thats supposed to be cheaper if I have to go spend more money for diffrent hardware so that it can be supported. today my foray into linux ends.