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Most importantly, which NetGear card? The kernel, by default, only supports about 6 wireless chipsets, but there are plenty of other drivers available. What's the output of:
Best to reply with your card type as well from the cardctl command, you probably have quite different netgear cards, last I checked they sold about six chipsets spread over twelve or so models.
Also, there's a well hidden, "subscribe to this thread" link near the bottom of the page.
What kind of Netgear card? I have a Netgear MA401 PC card that works quite well on Slackware with the hostap_cs kernel module. RedHat is quite different from Slackware, but if you use the same card then you should be able to compile and install that module to at least get kernel support for your card.
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