Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Mon, 30 May 2005, Ciaran Johnston wrote:
>>> I have a Netgear WG511 (T?) PCMCIA card that works fine everywhere in my
>> two-storey, semi-d. The router is also a Netgear, can't remember the
>> specifics though. I randomly plucked them off a shelf in Sweden a few
>> months ago.
>>> I have one of those too, works fine - prism54 full-MAC.
>> However, you can no longer buy them. They've not been in production
> for a while. Netgear WG511's now are 'softmac' and do not yet work in
> Linux. So do *not* buy a new WG511 /now/.
I'm confused. My card is an Atheros chipset.
[root@ ~]# lspci -vt
...
+-14.4-[02-03]--+-[03]---00.0 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212
802.11abg NIC
Is this the third type of WG511? It has the "Made in China", which
according to google should mean it is a softmac and won't work. Do they
just randomly choose whatever batch of chips is cheapest at the time, or
what?
/Ciaran.
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