Installing Netgear WAB501 wireless card on Mqandrake 10.1

[jeremy1701]

Can you please take a look and see if you can figure out the device namke?

Look at the cardctl command I mentioned above. Specifically from the link:

ident
Display card identification information, including product identification strings, manufacturer ID codes, and function ID codes.

Jeremy

[rajamuk@hotmail.com]

Jeremy,

Sorry for being so dense, but I need more guidance. Here's the output of cardctl status and cardctl ident commands:
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[root@localhost root]# cardctl status
Socket 0:
no card
Socket 1:
3.3V CardBus card
function 0: [ready]
[root@localhost root]# cardctl ident
Socket 0:
no product info available
Socket 1:
no product info available
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Now what do I do? It says for socket 1 that no information is available, but the details of the the card as seen by Harddrak is shown below:

Identification
Vendor: ‎Atheros Communications Inc.
Description: ‎AR5211 802.11a/b/g Mini-PCI Wireless Adapter
Media class: ‎NETWORK_ETHERNET
Connection
Bus: ‎PCI
Bus PCI #: ‎6
PCI device #: ‎0
PCI function #: ‎0
Vendor ID: ‎5772
Device ID: ‎18
Sub vendor ID: ‎4997
Sub device ID: ‎17408
Misc
Module: ‎ath_pci

[LoserWithCause]

rajamuk, where in ma are you from? I'm also having trouble with a pcmcia card.

[grcore]

Since its and Atheros card, it shoud be ath0 (not eth1, wlan0 etc).

g

[lef]

hi there.. i've also tried to use my wab501 on a laptop loaded with various of distros..

nothing worked out except of Suse 9.1 which recognised the card immediatly. i configured the ip and other settings (ad-hoc etc) from yast.. a connected to another laptop running winxp in seconds..

my laptop is an acer aspire 1304lc running winxp and suse 9.1.

btw, the wifi card is aliased as ath0