jleaman Posted May 11, 2005 Report Share Posted May 11, 2005 I have a new laptop running mandrake 10.1 just installed fresh. I was wondering if any one has instructions or has been able to get there Netgear MA521 card working with the (8180 chipset) ? Can any one help me please or give me a link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baillie Posted May 11, 2005 Report Share Posted May 11, 2005 From the Ndiswrapper supported cards list: Card: Netgear MA521 Chipset: RTL8180 FCC_ID: PY3MA521 Driver: ftp://210.51.181.211/cn/wlan/rtl8180l/ndis5x-8180(170).zip (NOT NETGEAR DRIVER! NETGEAR DRIVER UNSTABLE!!) Other: Works well even with DHCP on SUSE 9.0 Pro. 128 bit wep, managed mode. Will be trying WPA/PEAP/MSCHAP v 2 sometime later on. Check http://hastingswireless.homeip.net/index.php?page=articles&number=2004.11.22 for information. Here: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/List Is this the same? I use the Ndiswrapper to get my WLan card to work, works brilliantly, surprisingly i seem to get a better connection using windows drivers under Mandrake, than I do using windows drivers under windows! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jleaman Posted May 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2005 its the exact same card. do yo have a link that i can follow for instructions step for step eveen installing the NDiswrapper ? it is a brand new fresh install of mandrake 10.1 Id like to use this instead of WINDOWS yuk! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baillie Posted May 12, 2005 Report Share Posted May 12, 2005 Install Instructions: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki...hp/Installation Download from here: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ndiswra...tar.gz?download Download the drivers that you need, and put the driver files into a directory on your home drive, open the konsole log in as root, and do the following: 1. ndiswrapper -i /home/username/driver.inf 2. modprobe ndiswrapper 3. iwconfig wlan0 essid <SSID OF YOUR ACCESS POINT> 4. iwconfig wlan0 channel <CHANNEL NUMBER> 5. ifconfig wlan0 up 6. pump -i wlan0 Step 1 only needs to be done the first time, but 2 - 6 will be perfomed every time you connect, I'm new to this but you could probably put this all in a script file to run automatically. The forum is also a good place to go to get started: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/forum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durvish Posted May 12, 2005 Report Share Posted May 12, 2005 after step 2 type ndiswrapper -m so it will load at boot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted May 12, 2005 Report Share Posted May 12, 2005 On MDK, you don't need to download and build ndiswrapper, as MDK kernels already have it included, and the ndiswrapper command is in the 'ndiswrapper' package and can be installed via urpmi. Our network configuration tools also support ndiswrapper, so the only stages you really need to do are finding the Windows driver and installing it with ndiswrapper - i. Once that's done, run 'modprobe ndiswrapper' then run drakconnect and it will configure the card the rest of the way. You may also have to edit /etc/modprobe.conf and add a line like this: alias wlan0 ndiswrapper (drakconnect should do this, but it's sometimes buggy). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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