Netgear WN511T PCI Wireless Card

[jonniejetta]

My Toshiba Satellite 1900 Laptop was sitting around. I have always wanted to learn Linux after being brainwashed by windows. So I seized the opportunity and chose openSUSE 11.2 as a platform to start learning on.

My ethernet connection works without fail. Obviously, I want wireless freedom so I am using my old Netgear WN511T PCI cardbus to try and get the wireless to work.

I don't know how to get the drivers to work.

Any ideas?

I opened terminal and entered: /sbin/lspci | grep -i net

Results are:

02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet Controller (rev 03)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88W8361 [TopDog] 802.11n Wireless (rev 03

[reed9]

As far as I know, there is no native linux driver for this wireless chipset. It should, however, work using a Windows XP driver and ndiswrapper.

This fellow has a post on getting the card to work under Ubuntu with a link to the driver download.