Re: Netgear WG511T on Damn Small Linux

Michael Perry wrote:
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:58:37 -0700, Xandros Desktop OS User wrote:


I got this cheap wireless card for my old laptop thatI installed Linux on . It was the only card I could find that had any Linux support at all. It is supposed to work under the madwifi driver which I loaded on the DSL distro on my old laptop.

Well its not working and I get some error messages in the boot up screen.

insmod: Module ath_hal loaded with warnings
module wlan loaded with warnings
insmod/lib/modules/2.4.26/net/ath_pci.0 init module no such devvice

insmod Hint:insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
You many find mroe information in syslog or output from dmseg

I am not sure how to fix it though

Can anyone help?

I am a bit of a newbie in Linux it would be nice to get this working since the other choice is to use the windows 98 partition where it works fine.

But I hate to expose myself to all that bad stuff.

Thanks

Jeanette


Perhaps I'm wrong here but I seem to remember that there are two
manufacturers of this particular card. One works and one does not with
Linux drivers. I bought 3 of them before and found out that they were
from the place that did not work. As I remember it, its a chipset
difference. After that I bought a number of cards that use the RT2500
driver at newegg like one of the Asus cards. These cards are 11g cards
and go for about 33.00 each. You don't need firmware with them and they
seem to work reliably.


After doing a lot of research I have learned that although the madwifi driver is supposed to work with the altheros chipset it appears to be hit or miss so much for checking the HCL before I bought it.

Well it seems that there is some hope with NDISWRAPPER but it seems very confusing for a new linux user and DSl has no GUI tools so everything is going to have to be done commando line.

I guess I am going to be surfing on windows wireless. But I can still use linux when I have a wire and ethernet port.

.

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