Netgear WG511T

[onelastgoodbye]

I'm running Puppy 2.02 on a Toughbook CF-47 and i would like to get my WG511T card working on it, as i understand it, i need to download some kind of DotPup package for it. i'm not so great at this stuff but any help and direction would be great.

[Gn2]

This may show how :

http://revolutionnetwork.dyndns.org:808 ... ide-1.html

May I suggest : Try a search in Puppy . I.E. the HOW-TO header:

Google if specs not available :

Narrow searches by altering keywords used - often only a slight change of what words are used will get the desired results.

Best of luck, HTH

[onelastgoodbye]

i followed the directions from that site and messed around with the configuration on puppy a bit and got it to work.
thanks for the help

[Flash]

onelastgoodbye, would you mind being a little more forthcoming, for the benefit of others who might have similar problems? Please, tell us what you can remember of what you did that didn't and did work. Thanks.

[rblee]

Hi,

I use a W511T. Config is as follows:

OS: Puppy 2.10 (2.11 won't boot for some reason)
Machine: Compaq Armada 7800 (A big, heavy, notebook)
CPU: Pentium II (Deschutes) @ 266MHz
RAM: 128MB
Video: ATI Rage 128
Display: 1024*768*24bits
HD: Toshiba 10GB
Mouse: Built in "nipple" & Memorex "Harry Potter" external (I know... Sad...)

All I had to do was use ndiswrapper with the drivers on the original Netgear CD. Not only is this quick and easy, but you also get the 108Mb mode, which the Linux driver doesn't support. The hardest bit was getting it to start on boot - I put the relevent lines into /etc/rc.d/rc.local as follows:

modprobe ndiswrapper
iwconfig wlan0 essid VALE rate 108M mode managed key <mykey in hex>
dhcpcd wlan0

Obviously you need to make sure this goes in front of the firewall initialisation, but there's a note in the rc.local template about this. This seems a bit of a kludge - Does anyone have any better suggestions?

Really very, very, easy.

Cheers,

Roger.