Networking :: Setting up a Netgear WG511T wifi card.

dhcpcd has a small "quirk" - it creates a process file which needs to be deleted each time dhcpcd is stopped, otherwise at next boot dhcpcd won't start because it thinks it is already running.
So unless your shutdown scripts remove the file, at each boot you need to do this -
rm -rf /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-xxx.pid
("xxx" is the name of your network interface)

Hi all of you

I manage to get my Netgear WG511T adaptor quickly by using ndiswraper setup. I am a newbie about network but thanks to this thread I tried this.

My machine: An old Dell laptop with a 256 mb compactflashcard instead of an harddisk. DSL 2.3RC2, frugal install on the cf-card. This way I have a complete quiet computer the fan never go.

I got the Netgear file from a windows installation "netw511.inf" and put it on my cf-card (hda1)

ndiswrapper setup:

inf file: /mnt/hda1/netw511.inf
device: ath0
sid: "mysssid"
wep: " mykey"

works great for me.

I am a Linux noob/newbie/etc and finally got this card to work after trying a Belkin which I found out after I bought it to be basically Windows only. I did try ndiswrapper without success but that could have been my inexperience with Linux. So I purchased the Netgear WG511T. I was at the time on DSL 2.2. Put the laptop away since I couldn't get wireless working.

Now I have DSL 3.0.1 installed to the hard drive, no Frugal. After reading over this forum here is what I had to do once it completed booting up:

First I opened a terminal window. I then typed the following command and waited for the command prompt. I didn't recieve any errors:

iwconfig ath0 essid <essid> key <key> mode Managed

Exchange your ESSID for <essid> and your key for <key>. You may also need to change "ath0" to the actual ID created by DSL. This was my default name for the wireless card. Is that the right term? Anyway...

Next I typed:

pump -i ath0

Again change ath0 (ath-zero) for the name of your wifi card. Again no errors. Fired up Firefox (no pun intended) and the www.dslos.com/start came up!

Thanks Everyone!

Some other info I learned (if helpful) to compare with our own setup. When using the lsmod command I have two modules loaded for this card:

1. ath_pci used by 1
2. ath_hal used by 1 [ath_pci] (hal not ha1)

Prior to the two commands above (iwconfig and pump) ath_pci was listed as:

ath_pci used by 0 (unused)

original here.