Need 108Mbps driver for WG511T AR5001X+ Chipset In Wary 5.5

[DougGuy]

HI all, new to Wary, but liking it so far. Running it on an old Panasonic CF-71 toughbook piii450/256mb ram.

Using a Netgear WG511T which only connects at 11Mbps using the ath5x driver, trying to get it to use ndiswrapper and so far only got it to connect using a winxp dfriver for the AR5001X+ chipset, driver file is xp3264-10.0.0.274-whql which comes with netathw.inf and a netathwx.inf files, I got it to connect once at 54Mbps loading the netathw.inf when it let me choose which module to load.

Attempts to load the netathwx.inf file seems to have broken the whole works so I reinstalled Wary 5.5 again to vacuum out the other files that did not work.

Would anyone be able to steer me to a better driver or help me get this to connect at the 108Mbps this card is rated for?

[perdido]

Hi Doug,

Which version of the card you got?
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Edit: Ok, I see now Netgear WG511T
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[perdido]

The madwifi linux driver is supposed to work with your card.

There may be an already compiled madwifi driver for wary but need the kernel version in your wary to find the driver as it is kernel specific.

(In the terminal type the following and hit enter for kernel version)

uname -r



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[DougGuy]

lspci -vvnn says:

o1:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0013] (rev 01)

Subsystem: Netgear WG511T 108 Mbps Wireless PC Card (rev.A/B) [1385:4b00]

Kernel driver in use: ndiswrapper

The madwifi linux driver is supposed to work with your card.

There may be an already compiled madwifi driver for wary but need the kernel version in your wary to find the driver as it is kernel specific.

(In the terminal type the following and hit enter for kernel version)

uname -r



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# uname -r
2.6.32.59

Right now I am running from live image loaded off cdr, haven't saved or installed to hdd.

[perdido]

Thanks for kernel version.

Ok, will search around and see what I can find.

[perdido]

Netgear support page with windows drivers for NDIS wrapper experimenting
https://www.netgear.com/support/product ... ar_organic

[bigpup]

What is the connection speed of what you are trying to connect to?
Just because the card is capable of 108Mbps does not make it possible, unless the other device connecting to, can also run that fast.

I assume you are trying to connect to an Internet service provider.
What they say they can connect at is usually not what you will get all the time.

My service says I should get 60Mbps.
I usually get from 25Mbps to 45Mbps.

[DougGuy]

What is the connection speed of what you are trying to connect to?
Just because the card is capable of 108Mbps does not make it possible, unless the other device connecting to, can also run that fast.

I assume you are trying to connect to an Internet service provider.
What they say they can connect at is usually not what you will get all the time.

My service says I should get 60Mbps.
I usually get from 25Mbps to 45Mbps.

I use TWC we normally have a real solid connect and I often can nail 350+Mbps on speedtest.net, here is the router I have:

http://www.speedguide.net/routers/arris ... rrent-3412

Specs say:

Maximum Wireless Speed: 450 Mbps (802.11n)
WiFi standards supported: 802.11a (54 Mbps)
802.11b (11 Mbps)
802.11g (54 Mbps)
802.11n
Wifi security/authentication: WEP
WPA (TKIP)
WPA2 (AES)
802.1X (EAP-MD5/TLS/TTLS/PEAP)
Wireless MAC Address filtering
SSID Broadcast disable

[DougGuy]

Netgear support page with windows drivers for NDIS wrapper experimenting
https://www.netgear.com/support/product ... ar_organic

Thanks. I got those but couldn't get Wary to run the installer, and couldn't figure out how to extract them so I had an .inf file and the driver files. They extract to an .exe and .cab files.

[Flash]

It's possible that the old laptop you're using can't handle a 108 MBps connection. A 450 MHz CPU and only 256 MB of RAM are pretty much minimal specs these days, even for Puppy. What speed is the computer's Ethernet connection?

[DougGuy]

The ethernet I used with it is a Zircon card that has 100Mbit and it runs good with this, Wary is very quick when on the wired network. I can't run Cat5 out to the back of the house so I am trying to get it connected enough to play music files off one of my other machines.

The first day it played .flac files non stop with no hiccups or buffering, I had set up the wireless connection in the same room the router is in and then carried the laptop to the back of the house and I guess it had a different connection the next day and would not play smoothly at all but this was using the ath5 driver which only connects at 11Mbps.

Have not tried installing to hdd with the ndiswrapper and the netathw module loaded I suspect it will play those files just fine, but while it is running off the live image I might as well get the driver issues sorted and then I only have the one driver it needs.

Edit: I did look inside the router settings and chose G/N for wifi protocols. We have other devices in the house and not sure all of them will run at N speeds so I didn't set the router to N only.

[perdido]

Netgear support page with windows drivers for NDIS wrapper experimenting
https://www.netgear.com/support/product ... ar_organic

Thanks. I got those but couldn't get Wary to run the installer, and couldn't figure out how to extract them so I had an .inf file and the driver files. They extract to an .exe and .cab files.

I extracted them and put them here if you want to try. They are the .sys , .inf , & .cat files from the drivers directory.
http://www.ibm-pc.org/puppy/wg511t_v5.2.zip

They are the latest version - 5.2
So far no madwifi for your kernel, I think the source is still available if you want to compile it, last version is from 2007.
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[DougGuy]

I extracted them and put them here if you want to try. They are the .sys , .inf , & .cat files from the drivers directory.
http://www.ibm-pc.org/puppy/wg511t_v5.2.zip

They are the latest version - 5.2

Thank you very much for that perdido! Wary jumped right on the netw511 driver, but it still only connected at 54Mbps. I might have to just live with it. Beats the dog out of 11Mbps any day of the week! Now let me get it to hdd and take it out to location and see if it will still play music.

[perdido]

I extracted them and put them here if you want to try. They are the .sys , .inf , & .cat files from the drivers directory.
http://www.ibm-pc.org/puppy/wg511t_v5.2.zip

They are the latest version - 5.2

Thank you very much for that perdido! Wary jumped right on the netw511 driver, but it still only connected at 54Mbps. I might have to just live with it. Beats the dog out of 11Mbps any day of the week! Now let me get it to hdd and take it out to location and see if it will still play music.

Yea, the .inf file says it will connect at 108Mbps but maybe something gets lost in the translation using NDIS. Anyways, hope it holds at the higher rate.

For anybody curious I ran the setup.exe in wine, it would hang so started another setup session and it confused it enough to finish the setup.

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[DougGuy]

Yea, the .inf file says it will connect at 108Mbps but maybe something gets lost in the translation using NDIS. Anyways, hope it holds at the higher rate.

Just to test, I set the router to N only, phones and my Dell connect no problem, the WG511T negotiates the connection with the router, but the connection manager(s) in Wary don't seem like they are trying to connect at anything other than 802.11g. It's like I need to change a .conf file somwhere so it will attempt to connect with 802.11n.

Here is the log from the failed attempt, the netw511 driver is loaded with ndiswrapper:

Information about this interface:
Interface: wlan0 Driver: ndiswrapper Bus: pci MacAddress: 00:09:5B:94:C2:3B
Description: MS Windows driver 'netw511'

STEP1a: ifconfig wlan0 up
STEP1b: iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 40:70:09:A3:B7:00
ESSID:"DCyellowhse"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Master
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality:98/100 Signal level:-33 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
18 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
IE: Unknown: 000B444379656C6C6F77687365
IE: Unknown: 010882848B961224486C
IE: Unknown: 030101
IE: Unknown: 050400010000
IE: Unknown: 2A0100
IE: Unknown: 32040C183060
IE: Unknown: 0706555320010B24
IE: Unknown: 2D1AEC0117FFFFFF0000000000000000000000000000001846471100
IE: Unknown: 3D1601000400000000000000000000000000000000000000
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : CCMP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
IE: Unknown: DD180050F2020101800003A4000027A4000042435E0062322F00
IE: Unknown: 0B05030029127A
IE: Unknown: 7F0401000000
IE: Unknown: DD07000C4303000000
IE: Unknown: 0706555320010B10

[perdido]

From the .inf
It doesn't look like it knows 802.11n
Just 802.11A , 802.11B, 80211.G, and something called SuperG
Way above my pay grade to suggest how to modify the .inf to get 802.11N

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;###############################################################################
[Strings]
 DriverDiskName             = "NETGEAR Wireless Adapter Driver Disk"
 Vendor_String              = "NETGEAR, Inc."
 LEX.DeviceDesc.CB31g       = "NETGEAR 108 Mbps Wireless PC Card WG511T"
 
 WG511_Service.DispName     = "NETGEAR WG511T Wireless Adapter Service"

; (0x01=11A, 0x02=11A_TURBO, 0x04=11B, 0x08=11G, 0x16=SuperG)
 NetBand_DEF_STR_A          = "3"                       ; (A/T) 
 NetBand_DEF_STR_AB         = "7"                       ; (A/T/B)   
 NetBand_DEF_STR_G          = "12"                      ; (B/G)     
 NetBand_DEF_STR_AG         = "15"                      ; (A/T/B/G)
 NetBand_DEF_STR_SG         = "28"                      ; (B/G/SG)     
 
; (0=11B, 1=11A, 2=11A_TURBO, 3=11G)
 AdhocBand_DEF_STR_A        = "1"                       ; (A)
 AdhocBand_DEF_STR_AB       = "1"                       ; (A)
 AdhocBand_DEF_STR_G        = "0"                       ; (B)
 AdhocBand_DEF_STR_AG       = "0"                       ; (B)

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[perdido]

Best it will do is the 802.11SG , which is the 108Mbps
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1435720,00.asp

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[bigpup]

From Newegg add
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product. ... 6833150006

54Mbps(up to 108Mbps in turbo mode when use with WGT624 router)

Your router should provide this, but who knows.
Maybe they want to sell you theirs.

[perdido]

From the link Doug posted about his router
http://www.speedguide.net/routers/arris ... rrent-3412
"But Leutenant Dan, you don't have any 802.11SG"
Looks like 54Mbps is what you are gonna max at unless you get a router that supports SuperG

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Wireless
 Maximum Wireless Speed: 	450 Mbps (802.11n)
 WiFi standards supported: 	802.11a (54 Mbps)
802.11b (11 Mbps)
802.11g (54 Mbps)
802.11n
 Wifi security/authentication: 	WEP
WPA (TKIP)
WPA2 (AES)
802.1X (EAP-MD5/TLS/TTLS/PEAP)
Wireless MAC Address filtering
SSID Broadcast disable
 WiFi modes: 	Access point
 Multiple SSID: 	yes	
 WMM (QoS): 	yes	
 WMM-PS (QoS): 	yes	
 WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup): 	yes	
 Dual Band (2.4GHz/5GHz): 	yes	
 Simultaneous Dual Band (2.4GHz/5GHz): 	yes

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[DougGuy]

From the link Doug posted about his router
http://www.speedguide.net/routers/arris ... rrent-3412
"But Leutenant Dan, you don't have any 802.11SG"
Looks like 54Mbps is what you are gonna max at unless you get a router that supports SuperG
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Yep, I have about reached the same conclusion. Ya think Netgear couldn't be more deceptive about their advertising and maybe make that 108Mbps a little bit BIGGER so more ppl fall for it?

Once in location it will reconnect at 54Mbps but alas the little engine that could, could not pull .flac files through with enough resources to play them smoothly. It will play smaller files and mp3s but opening a folder full of files in XFE from the samba share lags terribly which is likely all the mighty p3 450 can do..

I thought I could repurpose it into a jukebox for my shop but it looks like it needs a little more horsepower to play larger files. Oh well, it is what it is and that is what it is..

TYVM fellas for all the help, chasing things in linux can sure lead one down the rabbit hole, glad this one wasn't too twisty or too $$ costly..

I guess I will have to put my Dell on shop duty, it's quad core extreme with 16GB ddr3 I think it will be up to the task!

Maybe one of my friends will donate a suitable carcass they have laying around that will pull flac files through the wifi and not lag so bad navigating menus on the share and Puppy will bark again!