getting a wireless netgear WG511T card to work on FC

[bruce]

Thanks Axel!

I noticed in your reply, the Rpms appear to be for FC5, I'm assuming that I
would use FC4 Rpms, or would I still download the FC5 Rpms for the madwifi
apps?

Also, when I try to look at my FC4 on my dell laptop, I only see the eth
interface for the wired/eth connection. Where/How would I see the network
interface/card when it's plugged in? I know.. really basic
questions/knowledge here...

Also, even though I've looked at the madwifi site (and others) I'm not sure
as to the process for the RPMs when I get them. Will I have to rebuild the
linux kernel? Will I have to have the Linux development/source files? (I
don't have these on the system.) Will I have to build/compile the madwifi
RPMs?

Thanks

-Bruce



-----Original Message-----
From: Axel Thimm [mailto:thimm at neu.nirvana]On Behalf Of Axel Thimm
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 10:26 PM
To: bedouglas at earthlink.net; For users of Fedora Core releases
Cc: 'Filianx'
Subject: Re: getting a wireless netgear WG511T card to work on FC


On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 11:59:44AM -0700, bruce wrote:
> duh!!!
>
> sorry about that.. i know that there are RPMs.. I've looked at the
> atRPMs/etc.. I don't know which ones to grab!!!
>
> I also don't know that this is the end/start of the process...
>
> I was/am hoping that I can find someone who could tell me exactly which
RPMs
> to grab, as well as the process required to get everything running...

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.i6
86.rpm
http://dl.atrpms.net/all/madwifi-hal-kmdl-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5-0.9.0-23.rhfc5.a
t.i686.rpm

> It took me awhile to find a card that seems to be supported by the madwifi
> app...
>
> -bruce
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Filianx [mailto:filianx at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 11:51 AM
> To: bedouglas at earthlink.net; For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: getting a wireless netgear WG511T card to work on FC
>
>
>
>
>
> On 06/06/06, bruce <bedouglas at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hi...
>
> I have FC4 and a netgear card WG511T. Can someone walk me through
> (small/slow details) on what I need to get from madwifi...
>
> I'm assuming that it's a number of RPMs that have to be
fetched/installed..
> But I'm not sure which ones from looking at the madwifi site.
>
> uname -a
> 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 6 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> thanks
>
> -bruce
> bedouglas at earthlink.net
>

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