i have installed slackware onced again as i am not going to let this wireless beat me. i installed ndiswrapper to see if i could get it to work and for the love of me i can not get it to work. I have lost the install cd so i cant pull the files from the disk. so i went to netgear and download there files unpacked it but there is no INF file. Unless i use this driver http://www.smc.com/files/AV%5CDR_2802wV.2_WHQL.zip the driver installs but i do not get the lan to come up. I dont know what else to do any ideas? I have the latest kernel installed and i even enabled the Prism drive and it will not work with that either.

Lotec

Have you tried the linux-wlan drivers? You can get them from http://www.linux-wlan.org

They work quite well for me, I've got a Netgear MA111 which uses similar technology (it's a Prism2.5 chipset I believe).

no i have not tried that yet. I think i am starting to find out the problem though. I have an onboard network card. not wireless but cable type. I have no way to disable this card in the bios. If i do ifconfig eth0 up i get a conflict. So i am kind of at a loss as how to disable the onboard nic card.

Lotec

To disable your onboard card, you can add the line to /etc/modules.conf. Find out which module is loaded for your onboard card by looking at the output of lsmod. Say, for example it's tulip, you'd put 'alias tuplip off' in /etc/modules.conf.