10.1 CE - wireless cool!!
At last, on 10.1 CE *BOTH* my wifi cards (Netgear MA401 11Mbs and Netgear WG511T 54Mbs) work flawlessly on my Sony VAIO PCG-GRV616S.
If anyone is interested the trick has been to cvs checkout the lates madwifi package, plain compile and add to /etc/modconf.preload all its modules. Those are the drivers for WG511T , but they might have After that, even the 11Mbps card which uses the orinoco_cs card started working! both connection have been configured and started using Mdk's control center. |
wireless lan
Hey Edoardo, thanks for your posting.
I was wondering if you could provide a more detailed description of your success to get the Netgear Adapter to work. I am new to Linux and consider buying a wirless LAN PCI adapter to use under Linux, it's hard to choose one. The Netgear adapter seems cheap, but it;s hard to figure out if it's really linux compatible beforehand. Therefore my question. Thanks for a detailed instructions how to get the Netgear going, assuming the user is really new to Linux. Kind Regarss, Wolfgang |
install 10.1 CE with your laptop connected with plain ethernet.
install kernel sources as well For a WG511T pcmcia card, do a cvs checkout of this project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/ unplug the ethernet cable compile (as root) - there's a README buty I really did not have to tewa anything. compiling the driver (eg executing 'make install' from the driver's directory) will create some .ko files in /lib/modules/<2.6.xyz>/net add them all to /etc/modprobe.preload execute (as root) modprobe /lib/modules/<2.6.xyz>/net/*.ko run mandrake control center and execute 'new connection' choosing wireless I use wep encription and I just copied and pasted the key the key I eneterd into my router in the corresponding field - but I suggest that to start with you set up your wap w/o encription and any security - just to make it work. then add wep and restrict MACs to your own cards only. cheers Edo |
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