Netgear card

[moliver-fC0AHe2n+mcIvw5+aKnW+Pd9D2ou9A/h at public.gmane.org]

Quoting Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>:

> On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 12:37:15AM -0400, moliver-fC0AHe2n+mcIvw5+aKnW+Pd9D2ou9A/h at public.gmane.org wrote:
>> Does anyone have any experience making a
>> Netgear WG511 wireless card (PCMCIA) work
>> with Linux?  Thus far, I haven't even managed
>> to get Linux to acknowledge that the card exists.
>>
>> Oh, on a slightly related note -- my laptop has
>> USB 1.1, and I'm thinking of getting a PCMCIA
>> USB 2.0 cardbus.  Any experiences using them
>> in Linux?
>
> Do you have pcmcia support working on your system?

To be honest, I'm not sure how to tell.  But I think so;
a graphical tool whose name I can't remember (currently running
Windows so I can send this mail) did show a change when I
plugged the card in and took it out.

>
> Which revision is the wifi card?

Again, I don't know how to find out.  But it was made in
Taiwan.

Here's the messages I get from the kernel (2.6.8), over and
over again, if I try to boot with the card plugged in:

  Jun 23 20:38:25 zermelo kernel: eth1: islpci_open()
  Jun 23 20:38:25 zermelo kernel: eth1: resetting device...
  Jun 23 20:38:25 zermelo kernel: eth1: uploading firmware...
  Jun 23 20:38:25 zermelo kernel: prism54: request_firmware() failed 
for 'isl3890'
  Jun 23 20:38:25 zermelo kernel: eth1: could not upload firmware ('isl3890')

Thanks to all who've responded, by the way!


>  According to this site
> http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_part.php?brandname=Netgear
> Most revisions can work with linux, but the marvell based one can not
> (no surprise there).
>
> Apparently there are 2 different v2 cards, one of which works well, one
> of which is hard to make work, and then the marvell which is imposible.
> This is worse than usual for a network equipment company.  Now they use
> the same model and revision on different hardware.  I think this is a
> good time to declare netgear off limits for purchases of new hardware.
> :)
>
> Len Sorensen
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