ok.... but can someone point me to something that takes me through how to get a wireless card up/runing on linux, step-by-step.... and can someone explain to me why RHEL appears to have a list of cards/adapters, if it doesn't really natively support any cards that i can find for the box????? -bruce -----Original Message----- From: nahant-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:nahant-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Axel Thimm Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 4:19 PM To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (Nahant) Discussion List Subject: Re: netgear wg511t - wireless network card On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 04:02:28PM -0500, Jay Lee wrote: > > On Fri, February 17, 2006 3:59 pm, bruce wrote: > > i'm looking to create a dell/rhel laptop, using netgear's wg511t network > > card. > > > > i'm considering this card as it appears to be natively supported > > by rhel 4. is this correct? The one I have (it's a bit old) has an atheros chipset in it. But netgear is known to upgrade hardware w/o changing the market name. > > can someone tell me the actual steps (or point me to a site with the > > actual steps) to get the card up/running on the dell/rhel system. > > > > when i plug the card into the slot, nothing seems to happen... > > > > i'd prefer not to have to install drivers/rebuild kernel if i don't have > > to. actual steps to accomplishing this would be greatly appreciated... > > No, it is not natively supported. The only G-wireless card I know of that > RHEL4 natively supports is the Centrino. You can however use the madwifi > drivers with these > > http://madwifi.org/ > > It works quite well, I have a few CentOS4 kiosks running 24/7 with Netgear > 311T's (same card but PCI interface). They work quite well, I just have > to make sure I recompile the madwifi after updating the kernel or they > won't get any connectivity. There is madwifi support for RHEL4 (i386 and x86_64) at ATrpms.net, you need the madwifi and the madwifi-kmdl-`uname -r` packages: http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/madwifi/ -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
