Netgear Wireless card.

[Michael A. Peters]

On 02/13/2005 12:22:25 PM, Juan Pablo Claude wrote:
> Dear Mike:
> 
> 	I have a Netgear WG311T wireless card. I was using it with FC2  
> to connect to my Apple AirPort Express network (I am mainly a Mac  
> guy). The driver I was u7sing is called madwifi, and you can get it  
> from madwifi.sourceforge.net. From there, the easiest is to get the  
> CVS snapshot as a tar archive and expand it in your home directory.  
> There you have to compile it and install the module. It is still a  
> beta version but it works pretty well. The README file had all the  
> information to configure and compile the driver. After you are done,  
> just load it with modprobe ath_pci. I am currently upgrading to FC3  
> so I still don't know how it works there.
> 
> I hope this helps.

Yes - I will be using madwifi myself soon, there is a src.rpm for it  
that allegedly works with fc3 at  
http://pipiche.free.fr/Downloads/Fedora/SRPMS/

(link at bottom seems to be newest)

I thin atrpms also has it, but I looked at their spec file and did not  
like it - uses too many macros that are not standard to Fedora rpm. I  
can read and understand exactly what the src.rpm at the above link  
does, and build it w/o needing to have special macros defined - meaning  
I can update it from cvs myself if need be.

Looks like it uses a binary only portion that kernel taints due to a  
FCC regulation - so we'll probably never see it in Fedora Core, unless  
there is a way to separate out the binary part from the kernel module  
so that it no longer taints the kernel. But I don't know if that is  
possible.

-- 
Michael A. Peters
http://mpeters.us/