Centrino wireless with additional ethernet adapter

Jeff Elkins jeffelkins at earthlink.net
Fri May 20 11:09:35 UTC 2005


On Wednesday 18 May 2005 10:48 am, Jeff Elkins wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 May 2005 08:49 pm, CAPTAIN RON FL wrote:
> > Do you have to have a key..."key MYHEXPASS".... or can you leave this
> > out? Also will this work in Gnome? I am having problems with my Toshiba
> > laptop getting on line.
> >
> > I have a Netgear WG511 card. I think it sees the card, but DHCP does
> > not seem to work.
> > I was able to get the built in lan to work though.
> >
> >I am looking for some way to get my wireless to work.
>
> This card is a real PITA to set up, but I have  it running under debian
> sid. It's been over a year, so all I remember is two days of muttering
> "why'd I buy this damn thing", but it eventually worked. I had to compile
> modules and track down firmware.
>
> Try: //www.atheros.com/news/linux.html
>
> I just installed ifplugd per John's suggestion and it works great with the
> netgear and with the centrino adapters. Thanks all for the help.
>
> Jeff

Just to follow up for Ron, I just booted a laptop equipped with the Netgear 
WG511T and the Hoary CD detected it and offered to use it for setup. Can't 
follow up with an actual setup at this time though...

Jeff


Jeff




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