Trouble with Netgear WG511 under FC3 on emachines 6805 (AMD64).

[Trevor Nightingale]

Just installed a WG511 cardbus wireless card in a laptop running FC2 yesterday. From what I can tell if your card is "Made in China" it is not supported !! Mine was made in Taiwan and works fine.

Go to this link and check out the last post by gradedcheese ... http://prism54.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=813

Worked first time for me 


-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Freeman
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 14:46
To: Kedar Patankar; For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Trouble with Netgear WG511 under FC3 on emachines 6805 (AMD64).

On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 20:09 -0800, Kedar Patankar wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:54:43 -0800, Kedar Patankar <kedarnp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have an emachines M6805 laptop with WG511 cardbus wireless card. I 
> > have an FC2 installation on this puppy and it works like a champ 
> > using WEP. I am trying to install FC3 on this laptop and I can't get 
> > the wireless card to work. I copied the f/w I am using under FC2 
> > (which I got from the XP driver) to /lib/firmware and inserted the 
> > line "alias
> > eth1 islpci_cb" to /etc/modprobe.conf. I also tried out the f/w

The correct module name is prism54.  What happens when you enter "modprobe prism54" followed by "iwconfig"?  "ifup eth1" should now bring everything to life.  If the network is now working then change the alias line in modprobe.conf.

> > available from prism54.org. But the whole thing is dead - I don't 
> > see any activity on the card - no blinking LEDs - nothing.
> > 
> > Has anyone else managed to get WG511 working under FC3? Or is it an
> > x86_64 specific problem? I do remember people mentioning success 
> > with
> > WG511 on FC3-T3 on prism54.org
> > 

My WG511 works perfectly in my PIII laptop running FC3.  I have no experience with the WG511 and x86_64.

> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > Regards/Kedar.
> >
> 

Kevin Freeman

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