Getting NETGEAR WG511 802.11G card to Work with LINUX??

rbjones6 · 09-17-2003, 10:38 AM

I have a NETGEAR WG511 802.11G laptop card, and a Netgear Access Point. I am using Redhat 9. I am trying to get wireless internet to work for my card. Are there any drivers out there that would work for me. In addition, what are the steps I should go through to get it working. Thanks in advance.

Dariusz Szydlowski · 12-29-2006, 11:41 AM

Hello,
I have the same card on my portable laptop. After playing with fedora os, I loaded Suse open system 10.2 on this pc. Suse help provided me with very straight-forward mehtod of loading ndiswrapper and having this card working on this pc. I think, it would also work with other linux versions. The search ndiswrapper would bring up the typical mehtod of its installation on linux os.
You could email me at darekszydlowski@sbcglobal.net, if you would like more details.
Darek

Hangdog42 · 12-29-2006, 12:43 PM

May I also suggest you reconsider your choice of Redhat 9 as you operating system. Support for RH9 was discontinued several years ago Redhat no longer offers security patches. Also, wireless support has improved significantly since RH9, and it is likely much more difficult to get a wireless card running on RH9 than on a more modern distribution.