Netgear card

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 01:54:57AM -0400, Jamon Camisso wrote:
> I have one that works, but it is a version 1 card. You can check to see 
> if yours is version 1 or 2 by finding the place of manufacture printed 
> on the card. If it says Taiwan it is a version 1 card that uses Prism/GT 
> drivers and is supported out of the box. If it says China it is version 
> 2 and uses SoftMAC for firmware vs. version 1 which uses FullMAC (I 
> think that's what the problem is, not exactly sure what it means 
> though!). Version 2 might well use prism/gt, but because of the firmware 
> issue, the prism driver just doesn't work properly. Seems work is being 
> done (http://prism54.org), but that doesn't help you right now.
> 
> For more on the v1, v2, soft/full mac thing:
> http://prism54.org/pipermail/prism54-devel/2004-September/001983.html
> 
> If, as I suspect, yours is a made in China or explicitly says v2, have 
> you tried using ndiswrapper and the windows drivers? That might do you 
> quite well.

Apparently china v2's require islsm (difficult to make work), while
taiwan v2's are simple to make work.

Len Sorensen
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