Wireless Card???

[souther32]

Hi, does Debian support any wirless cards? I have a Netgear 32-bit CardBus WG511 and was wondering if theres anyway I can get it to work using Debian? It works fine on Windows...

[Juan Pablo]

Check this http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/wir...d-work-wi.html

[Dapper Dan]

Hi souther32 and welcome to Linuxforums. You'll need to tell us what version this WG511 is. Once the chipset is known, we can better tell you how to proceed in getting it operational. You'll need to open a terminal and type:

lspci

And press enter. Also type:

lspci -n

and press enter. Find the entry for your wireless device. Match up the first set of numbers (and letters if any) in front of it with the exact same numbers and letters from the lspci -n command. As an example, here's the output I get from both commands on my machine. I'll use my regular ethernet card for the example...

dapper@dan:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRA
M Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE Host
-to-AGP Bridge (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/
ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/
ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/
ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB
2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Int
erface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller
(rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) S
MBus Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 660                            0/GeForce 6600 GT] (rev a2)
02:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB PRO/100 VE (LOM)                             Ethernet Controller (rev 81)


dapper@dan:~$ lspci -n
00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:2560 (rev 01)
00:01.0 Class 0604: 8086:2561 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 Class 0c03: 8086:24c2 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 Class 0c03: 8086:24c4 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 Class 0c03: 8086:24c7 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 Class 0c03: 8086:24cd (rev 01)
00:1e.0 Class 0604: 8086:244e (rev 81)
00:1f.0 Class 0601: 8086:24c0 (rev 01)
00:1f.1 Class 0101: 8086:24cb (rev 01)
00:1f.3 Class 0c05: 8086:24c3 (rev 01)
01:00.0 Class 0300: 10de:00f1 (rev a2)
02:02.0 Class 0401: 1102:0007
02:08.0 Class 0200: 8086:1039 (rev 81)

Find the same two lines for your wireless card, write them down if necessary and post just those two lines here. Then, we can figure which way to go.

[souther32]

03:00.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette]/ISL3886 [Prism Javelin/Prism Xbow] (rev 01)

03:00.0 0280: 1260:3890 (rev 01)

Would this be the right information you need?

[Dapper Dan]

Yes. That's it exactly. Found this for you. It would apear ndiswrapper will be your best bet if your card will not utilize the Linux PrismGT drivers. I'm afraid I've gotten really far away from Debian so I'd hate to advise you on just how to go about installing ndiswrapper. You might want to check this out.

[antidrugue]

About installing NDISWRAPPER on Debian, there are many threads on the forum that explains it.

Just today there was this one.

Once you have the module installed, just proceed with inserting your card's windows driver :

ndiswrapper -i windows_driver.inf
ndiswrapper -m
modprobe ndiswrapper
echo "ndiswrapper" >> /etc/modules

(of course replacing windows_driver.inf with your actual .inf windows driver file).

Then it should work nicely.

Feel free to post back if you are feeling confused.