Networking :: WG511 v2 Help please

I would really appreciate a walkthru on getting this network card working. Can someone please help me with this?

David

I have seen in the verified wireless card thread that this card works. I have not been able to accomplish this. Is there any one that has done this and can give me a direction?

David

If you have the Netgear WG511, not WG511T, then you have the PrismGT chipset so DSL's Prism54 driver should work.

Run "lsmod" to see if DSL has detected your card - you should see prism54 listed. If not, run "sudo modprobe prism54".

Read nevc64's post about troubleshooting missing firmware files - http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=6753

Well tempesteous, thanks for a response, I have tried those things. One of the first things I found was nevc64's post and tried it. I have read the many links that I have googled up. I may need to be a little more specific. I have a frugal install that is v1.4. I just did the upgrade from 1.2. Iwconfig shows that the card is not ready. I also have something like this "no such device or directory" when I do ifconfig eth0 up. I believe my card to be a WG511 as that is what the number on the card says. It is made in Taiwan and I bought it about one year ago. DSL finds it during boot but is ignored, insmod returns that prism54.o is already present. I let my son take it to school so he can take notes this evening so I can't give you exact wording but these may be able to get the idea across. If not and you have other ideas ask for specifics and I will run the commands and give exact wording when I have access to the laptop. I really appreciate any ideas you may have.

David

If prism54.o is already present it means that DSL detected your card and loaded this driver, presumably without errors. Sounds good to me.

Slow down! Before you can do "ifconfig eth0 up" you need to tell your system what your router's wireless settings are - SSID, WEP, and mode.
Also, don't assume that the when the prism54 driver loaded it created a network interface called "eth0". It might be "wlan0". Check this first by running "ifconfig -a".

I'm not very experienced with iwconfig, but I think the following is correct (let's assume your wireless interface is eth0) -

iwconfig eth0 essid MYESSID key 1234567890 mode Managed
pump -i eth0

Obviously substitute your own SSID and WEP, if any.
Now run ifconfig to see if eth0 is configured. Ping your router to double check.

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