Mepis hard drive install doesn't detect Netgear WG511

[calebredmond]

Hi- I'm a newbie, just upgraded my old Pentium II IBM Thinkpad 600 from Win 98 to a dual Win XP/ Mepis system.

The Mepis install went fine generally, but it didn't detect the built in modem (I have dial up access at home) & it isn't picking up my Netgear WG511v1 wireless pcmcia card at my current work location.

I checked the Netgear website, and didn't see any thing applicable to a linux setup.

I tried using the K Wifi utility to configure, but it wasn't even picking up the card (the led inicator light on the card doesn't come on), so it may be that I need to somehow configure Mepis to detect the pc card slots, but that's a little beyond my ability at this point.

Any help getting the wireless link up and running greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[swemic]

Could you run from a shell

/sbin/lspci

and post the output here
It might be so that your Netgear is not supported by Linux (yet)
If that's the case, NdisWrapper might be your friend

[Flatline]

I think the version 1 of that card uses a prism54 chip.

You can grab the driver for it and instructions from here:

http://prism54.org/