Guest mrscoobs Posted August 17, 2004 Report Share Posted August 17, 2004 :unsure: I know this has been asked a few time, but I am looking for a wireless card for my laptop. One that takes very minimal configuration to get up and running. Unfortunately, I have tried two different Netgear WG511s and cannot get them to work. I had a d-link working with driveloader but then I screwed something up and had to re-install and cannot get it to work now with either card and can't get help with the errors. So if someone has a recomendation as to which card is...Plug & Play or recognized out of the box. Preferably a 54G. Thanks, John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted August 17, 2004 Report Share Posted August 17, 2004 i think orinoco based cards are nearly painless... :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted August 17, 2004 Report Share Posted August 17, 2004 My netgear 511 works, you might want to look harder at it before you go waste some $$ Prism54.org Check this out, Prism54-Mandrake-Forum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mrscoobs Posted August 17, 2004 Report Share Posted August 17, 2004 I have indeed tried the prism site and also the forum section. And nobody can seem to help me out. So I'm at a loss. I want my Linux Wireless. Cost is not really an issue. Googling isn't helping at all. I have a laptop running Mandy 10 Official. I have kernel 2.6.7. And I have a WG511 wireless card. I have done two things. One I tried not compiling kernel as Prism54 driver is already installed. I have installed the firmware into/sbin/hotplug. The green light on the card comes one. But when I try and bring up eth1 iget the following error SIOCSIFFLAGS: Timer Expired. Now I'm stuck don't know what to do. I also patched the kernel and get the same errors. I have been working for about a month trying to get this thing to work. Helpppppppp! Thanks John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted August 17, 2004 Report Share Posted August 17, 2004 siocsifflags post Does that help? What are you using for settings? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mrscoobs Posted August 27, 2004 Report Share Posted August 27, 2004 Mandrake made me goofy so I went to SuSe Pro 9.1 and it works flawlessly. No the siocifflags at Prism did not help. Tried many, many things. Spent a few hours on Google, etc. Out of curiosity I decided to give 9.1 Pro a try and all I had to do was let it know what my Access Point was and wallaa. Thanks for eveyones help, JOhn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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