Netgear WG511 - again

[sunet]

Hi everybody

I have searched this forum a lot and found a lot of topics on this issue, but it has not solved my problem.

I've just bought a Netgear WG511 v2 wireless PCMCIA card (the Taiwan edition), and I can't get it working in Mandrake 10.1

Nothing happens when i plug in the card.
Then I have trie lspci -v and I have one post which include Netgear:
0d:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.: Unknown device 1faa (rev 03)
Subsystem: Netgear: Unknown device 4e00
Flags: 66Mhz, medium devsel, IRQ 10
Memory at 21000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=64K]
Memory at 21010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

If you want to see the entire output I'll post it.
cardctl status gives this:
Socket 0:
no card
Socket 1:
3.3V CardBus card
function 0: [ready]

And cardctl indent gives this:
Socket 0:
no product info available
Socket 1:
no product info available

I have copied the firmware 1.0.4.3.arm from prism54.org to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware and renamed it isl3890 (i have also tried rename it to isl3890.arm)

With the lsmod i get this modules among others
prism54 49148 0
firmware_class 7232 1 prism54

In the Mandrake Control center i can se a new ethernetcard when it is plugged in, it's not identified, and the module is unknown. I have tried running the Config tool, and found the prism54 driver in the list, but i can't get on with it.

The card works fine in WinXP on the same laptop.

I hope you can help me. Linux is still new to me.

Regards Sune

[lakerdonald]

http://www.linuxforums.org/tutorials...ial-23875.html
That's a tutorial I wrote for yoper, but it should work on almost any distro except gentoo.

[sunet]

I thought the prism54 driver was a part of the Mandrake 10.1 dist. I have read of a lot of others who got the WG511 working out of the box on Mandrake, and it's in the list of available drivers.

The problem is that I can't do
ifconfig eth0
because I don't know the device number.

[jeremy1701]

Why don't you just setup a new wireless connection using Mandrake Control Center?

Jeremy

[sunet]

When i try to do that i goes like this:

1) I start Mandrake Control Center
2) Go to the Hardware section. Here I can se there is a new ethernetcard when the card is plugged in, but it doesn't show the vendor and under Module it says unknown.
3) I click on "Config tool" for the device.
4) I select Wireless
5) Then I don't get a list of the devices, but with no devices, only the possibility to select the driver my self.
6) I do that, and finds the prism54 driver in the list and press Next
7) Then I select Autoprobe and press Next.
8) And then I end back to the list of devices, like the one at step 5 again.

[jeremy1701]

MCC>

1. Networking
2. New Connection
3. Wireless
4. Follow the rest

Jeremy

[sunet]

When I use the config tool in Harddrake it's same as setting up new connection.

So when i try to set up a new connection, the card is not listed, but I can find the drive manually, I do that and pick the prism54 driver, but when i press next i just go back to where i just came from.

So here I am. Harddrake does regocnize it as a ethernetcard, but it can't identify it, and it doesn't get a device number assigned. Or does it maybe, how can I see that?

Is there any way I can use the new connection wizard a terminal, so I can see any errors?
Or any other idea for looking for errors?

[sunet]

I've googled a little more and found these to links:

This one saying it has to be WG511 v2 to work:
http://www.figuiere.net/hub/blog/?20...dapter-warning
> I'm gonna have to find a Made in Taiwan also know as v2. The friends on #prism54 did
> confirm this.

And this one saying that v2 does not work (it has to be v1):
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux...r.general/3979
> (I've tried a netgear WG511 cardbus card without problem
> with the prism54 module and I decided to buy one, but I've received a
> netgear WG511v2 which is not supported by the prism54 module)

Anyone who can confirm/disprove this?

[sunet]

I've just found this:

http://www.gawth.com/index.cgi/Clien...rs_2f802_2e11g

Saying thar the v2 uses a Marvel chipset and not the prism54 like the v1. I think that settles it.

I'm so f... tired of this wireless cards. This is the second one I bought to get it working in linux. Anyone have a nother suggesten to a card that is 110% supported in Linux?