Howto configure Wireless Card in FC5

[Antonio Montagnani]

2006/6/3, Erik Hemdal <ehemdal at townisp.com>:
>
> > I have FC5 on a vanilla Athlon 64  CPU. I also have a Netgear WPN311
> > NIC.
>
> I've never used madwifi, so I can't describe how it works.  For what
> it's worth, if nothing else helps you, perhaps this will.
>
> I generally do the following:
>
> 1.  First try to use system-config-network to configure a new network
> interface.  If the card is plugged in, and there is a native driver
> available, this should find it and let you set up a network connection.
> In the past, I've had success with Netgear cards, so you might be able
> to work with what is provided out-of-the-box.
>
> 2.  If there's no native driver, then the next step is up to you.  You
> can try to find a vendor-supplied driver for Linux or use ndiswrapper.
> I've gone the ndiswrapper route for cards that don't have native drivers
> and I've had good success.  To use ndiswrapper, you need to have a
> native Windows driver for your wireless card, which is not usually hard
> to come by.  You also need a working network connection so that you can
> access the ndiswrapper Wiki for installation instructions.
>
> The general process for ndiswrapper goes like this:
>
> You obtain the ndiswrapper source and install the wireless-tools package
> while you're at it.  On your friendly, neighborhood Windows machine,
> yank the Windows driver files off your card's install CD (or you can
> obtain the driver files by hunting on the ndiswrapper project site or
> elsewhere.
>
> You build ndiswrapper from source.  You'll need the kernel-devel package
> to get necessary kernel headers.  Once this is done, you install the
> built code as root (make install).
>
> >From there, it's a matter of installing your Windows driver per the
> ndiswrapper instructions on the Wiki, and configuring the card.
>
> A quick search of the Madwifi site seems to uncover a lot of useful info
> for the newcomer, too.
>
> Erik
>
> >
> > Thanks
> > Chris Jones
>
>
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Netgear card is supported by madwifi driver.
See http://linux-wless.passys.nl/?lang=english for an exhaustive list
of supported devices (and unsupported...)

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Antonio Montagnani
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