WG511 V2

Howdy all,

I wasn't sure were to post this so I'll try it here. I have a Netgear WG511 V2 pcmcia card plugged into my MII 10000. In order to get this to work I need to install the drivers into the FC6 Kernel.
Now I'm thinking it's not going to be as easy as just getting the FC6 Kernel source, the driver source and just recompiling the Kernel, then inserting it into the MythDora ISO.
If this is remotely possible some guidence would be greatly appreciated. If not a 'Not in your lifetime' response would also be helpful to, save me wasting my time on it :)

Thank you to all who reply

This isn't that hard to

This isn't that hard to install. You will want to use the ndiswrapper driver for this to work. You don't need to recompile anything or insert into an ISO :-/. The ndiswrapper drivers are already included with MythDora. Just do a Google search on your nic card and fc6 and there are plenty of how to's.

"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis

"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis

Still trying

Thanks for the reply Dennis

I've finally been allowed the time to return to this project :) and I've done exactly what you've said I've googled and read every "how-to" on FC6 and ndiswrapper that I could find and have proceeded no further than:
ndiswrapper -i WG511v2.INF
driver wg511v2 is already installed

ndiswrapper -l
wg511v2 : invalid driver!

Most of the tutorials at this point say we can't help you google further. So I google further and the only other tutorials I can find that differ go on about the 4k stack Kernal and you need to recompile it to a 16k stack Kernal then recompile ndiswrapper on your system, which sounds kinda ludicrus. I do like the quote from one site that said "These chipsets have been around for a while now, at this stage I don't want to be arseing around with ndiswrapper I want them to work just work" :) He's only suggestion was to forget fedora and choose a different package (this was a mythtv how-to), so I think he might have been biased towards the package he mentioned that apparently handled these chipsets nativly.

Anyway getting back to the problem at hand. I'm sure it's so simply that your laughing at why this moron hasn't done it yet so please tell me the secret I'm missing.

Thanks again,
Jimmy

Quote:

Quote:

wg511v2 : invalid driver!

This is your problem. Until you get this corrected things won't work. The supplied ndiswrapper rpm's should work but then again who knows. I would suggest confirming this is the correct INF file or compile the latest ndiswrapper and go from there.

http://www.freewebs.com/duckzland/ndiswrapper.html#personal
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-newbie/33747-netgear-wg511v2-problems.html

Also be sure of the .sys file.
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-208866.html

Here is a link to various wireless drivers for linux.
http://www.linux-wireless.org/Wireless/Drivers/

"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis

"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis