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Posted: April 27 2005,05:41 QUOTE
OK. Talk about weirdness. I tried booting knoppix (both 3.6 and 3.8) because those distros supposedly support prism54 drivers, but no lights came on when I inserted the card. Here is the weird part: lspci in knoppix does not show my card at all... but lspci in DSL does! I thought it didn't, but when I insert my card, a new device shows up on the list. Knoppix does nothing when I insert/remove the card. Anyway, I'm interested in that prism54 module, Saidin. Post it if you find it!

Ke4nt1, I also want to know how to get ndiswrapper working. I tried the gui thing and... nothing happened.
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Posted: April 29 2005,01:13 QUOTE
Boohyeah! I got it working! I noticed that when I ran lspci that the card was returning and invalid vendor id. I downloaded the prism54 driver source from www.prism54.org, and re-coded it to ignore the vendor id on my card. I re-compiled it, and boom! Now it works. I hope this info helps someone else.
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Posted: May 07 2005,02:36 QUOTE
obimeister!

exactly, how did you recode the source from prism54.org to ignore the vendor ID?

I had trouble getting this card to work with the prism54 driver and am currently using ndiswrapper.

My card is the Taiwan version as well and I had the same error you mentioned in the start of this thread.

Cappy
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Posted: May 11 2005,15:26 QUOTE
O.K., here is what I did to get netgear WG511 (802.11g cardbus adapter) working:
installed gcc1.dsl
installed apt-get
updated hotplug package with apt-get
Downloaded kernel 2.4.26 source from kernel.org
installed kernel source
installed kernelsource.dsl
ran "make dep"
Downloaded prism54 source tarball from prism54.org
edited lspci_hotplug.c in prism source:
in prism_54_id_tbl
in netgear wg511 entry
changed PCIVENDOR_INTERSIL to PCI_ANY_ID
Compiled + installed prism54 as per readme: remember to:
install firmware_agent (search the forums for this)where hotplug wants it
copy firmware binary (available at prism54.org) to where firmware_agent wants it.
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