Re: Howto configure Wireless Card in FC5
- From: "Antonio Montagnani" <antonio.montagnani@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 23:16:31 +0200
2006/6/3, Erik Hemdal <ehemdal@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
Netgear card is supported by madwifi driver.
> I have FC5 on a vanilla Athlon 64 CPU. I also have a Netgear WPN311
> NIC.
I've never used madwifi, so I can't describe how it works. For what
it's worth, if nothing else helps you, perhaps this will.
I generally do the following:
1. First try to use system-config-network to configure a new network
interface. If the card is plugged in, and there is a native driver
available, this should find it and let you set up a network connection.
In the past, I've had success with Netgear cards, so you might be able
to work with what is provided out-of-the-box.
2. If there's no native driver, then the next step is up to you. You
can try to find a vendor-supplied driver for Linux or use ndiswrapper.
I've gone the ndiswrapper route for cards that don't have native drivers
and I've had good success. To use ndiswrapper, you need to have a
native Windows driver for your wireless card, which is not usually hard
to come by. You also need a working network connection so that you can
access the ndiswrapper Wiki for installation instructions.
The general process for ndiswrapper goes like this:
You obtain the ndiswrapper source and install the wireless-tools package
while you're at it. On your friendly, neighborhood Windows machine,
yank the Windows driver files off your card's install CD (or you can
obtain the driver files by hunting on the ndiswrapper project site or
elsewhere.
You build ndiswrapper from source. You'll need the kernel-devel package
to get necessary kernel headers. Once this is done, you install the
built code as root (make install).
>From there, it's a matter of installing your Windows driver per the
ndiswrapper instructions on the Wiki, and configuring the card.
A quick search of the Madwifi site seems to uncover a lot of useful info
for the newcomer, too.
Erik
>
> Thanks
> Chris Jones
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