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Topic: Netgear WG511vg2 card ..., Need installing help from the beginning

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roberts

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Posted: Jan. 07 2007,04:29

So these cards have an Atheros chipset. Thanks great to hear, as I did just update the atheros modules in the latest DSL. Glad to hear this.
Thanks for sharing.

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Posted: Jan. 07 2007,05:01

Are you sure Atheros? I thought these beasts had Marvell chips inside? Unless Atheros bought Marvell and I missed it

schiz

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Posted: Jan. 09 2007,11:10

Hmm sorry to be all annoying about this, but I got the netgear card and dsl rc2 and the inf and sysfile and did what was said to work here. Tho I get a message doing "iwconfig" saying "lo no wireless extensions" what did I do wrong? Gonna read this whole thread once more, but I didn't quite understand what I didn't catch up last time :=)

the computer I'm doing it on is a AST ascentia P serier Pentium MMX 166mhz with 32mb ram If there is any more info you need just tell me

twix

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Posted: Jan. 10 2007,06:40

hi there,

i`m just posting in this thread cause I think I have exactly the same problem as schiz.
Searching for solutions for days now...
I'm using DSL-N 0.1 RC4 installed on HD
WLAN Card is Netgear WG511v2 (PCMCIA card)

What does work:

ndiswrapper -i <driver>

ndiswrapper -m (is this neccessary? read is somewhere)

ndiswrapper -a (also: is this neccessary? read is somewhere)
File "ndiswrapper" with alias information is created in /etc/modprobe.d/

ndiswrapper -l :
shows me "wp511v2 driver installed, hardware present"

modprobe ndiswrapper

lsmod :
shows ndiswrapper in the list

PCMCIA Card Control shows me all Information on my Card now, "Marvell" chipset an so on...

What doesn`t work (yet):

ifconfig -a :
shows only loopback device, no wlan0

iwconfig:
"lo no wireless extensoins"

iwlist wlan0 scan :
"wlan0 Interface doesn`t support scanning"

iwconfig wlan0 essid <myssid> :
of course, "no such device"

So what else could I try to get this card working?
I know this question has been asked in this forum a few times already, but I'm quite at a loss at this point...

Ah and btw, how do I make ndiswrapper start automatically at every boot?

Would be great if someone can help...

twix

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Posted: Jan. 10 2007,11:55

hello again,

I also tried
"dmesg | grep ndiswrapper"and checked the output.
There is an error, but I don't know what it means:

ndiswrapper version 1.14 loaded (preemt=yes,smp=yes)
ndiswrapper: driver wg511v2 '(NETGEAR,09/17/2004,3.1.0.19) loaded
ndiswrapper: request for irq 0 failed
ndiswrapper (miniport_init:273): couldn't initialize device: C0000001
ndiswrapper (pnp_start_device:497): Windows driver couldn't initialize the device (C0000001)
ndiswrapper: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -22

well...obviosly something is wrong, but when typing "ndiswrapper -l" you see wether the device is plugged in or not, so some connection has to be made...

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