wireless

i have a ibm t22 and i am trying to get a netgear card wg511v2 to work the directions leave a lot to be desired ,i use mandriva 2006 i have looked for directions in verious distros.and they all seam to leave some info out.they all seam to assume we know somthing we doint.

I have no t22 or netgear wg511v2, but I do have wireless (with WEP) working with my laptop and Ubuntu, I forget whats in the machine (an intel?) but the wireless hub is a Linksys WRT54g.

What kind of problems are you having?

bp1137, I looked around a little on google, and it looks like that card is a difficult one to support in linux. Apparently, there are two versions of the card that both end in “v2”, made in different countries, and only one of them even seems to work properly with ndiswrapper. Some of the info I dug up was a little old, so that may or may not be the case with newer linux distros.

One of the forums I looked at mentioned this site – http://www.linuxant.com . They have a driver loader product for Linux that is apparently an alternative to ndiswrapper. They charge $20 for the product, and I’m assuming it’s not open source, but if you’re just trying to make that particular card work, it may do the trick. They have a free trial, so you can see if it works before shelling out the $$$.