Setting up a wireless usb netgear card -- I am in need of help!!!

[Nils Kassube]

Larry Shields wrote:
> This is my first time in trying to setup a NetGear USB WG111v2 wireless
> card...Yesterday Charter.net installed our cable for TV & Internet
> connection, he had no problem in getting my wifes WINXP computer to the
> internet...But then he came up to my computer and install the usb
> wireless card, and then he had a problem, for he said he had never
> heard of LINUX and left it up to me to figure out...

In a terminal enter the command

lsusb

and you will see a line which identifies your wireless card. In that line 
there is the device ID which looks like "067b:2305" (this one is from a 
totally different device). Google for that ID and you may find the needed 
information.


Nils