getting a wireless netgear WG511T card to work on FC

[Antonio Montagnani]

2006/6/7, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net>:
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 07:35:54AM +0200, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
> > >The easiest is to let smart/yum/apt do their job with something like
> > >
> > >yum install madwifi madwifi-`uname -r`
> > >
> > >(you need to activate atrpms in your depsolver setup).
> > >
> > >If you need to download by hand then probably you will need (for i686,
> > >non-smp, non-xen0):
> > >
> > >http://dl.atrpms.net/all/madwifi-0.9.0-23.rhfc5.at.i386.rpm
> > >http://dl.atrpms.net/all/madwifi-kmdl-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5-0.9.0-23.rhfc5.at.i686.rpm
> > >http://dl.atrpms.net/all/madwifi-hal-kmdl-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5-0.9.0-23.rhfc5.at.i686.rpm
> > >
>
>
> > you may have missed a post of mine.
> > I have a D-link G650 that is working with madwifi from your repository
> > FC5-0.9.0-20.
> > When I upgarded to FC5-0.9.0-23 I got some errors from kismet.
> > Can you check???
>
> I replied to that post. In a nutshell: madwifi's interface changed
> from what is today known as madwifi-old to madwifi-ng, where the
> latter is now the offcial madwifi. Check madwifi.org for further
> details/differences between the two branches.
>
> > A further comment: if you have an Atheros chip on your card I suggest
> > to use ATrpm repository as procedure is straightforward, you have only
> > ath0 in your network....
>
> I'm not sure I understand, you mean that madwifi hides away your wired
> ethX interfaces? That shouldn't happen, if it does it's bug. :/
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Axel

I apologize but I missed your reply that clarifies everything....
About the second point, when I installed from a different repository
than yours, I found eth1 and ath0 in the network configuration tool.
By your repo, I found only ath0, as it should be.
Rgds
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