Is there a driver for Netgear wireless card WAG511

Maurice,

This forum post should shed some light on your requirement:

    http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-110106.html

Please return to Launchpad and mark the question Solved if this resolves your issue.

Thanks!

Harvey

Harvey,

Thanks for your help.

Apparently, Ubuntu 8.0.4 comes with the Madwifi driver already installed.

~# modprobe -l ath_pci
/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/madwifi/ath_pci.ko

But I cannot connect to my office network. I connect with Mac or Windows.

Maurice Meneguzzi

It may be your wireless security. Linux don't call the encryption the same as windose. I have the same adapter and Ubuntu installed the drivers without any problem, but I had to have a couple of stabs at the password/phrase

I have installed Ubuntu 8.0.4 on a Dell Laptop with an Intel wireless card and it works with a WPA passphrase.
But with the Netgear WAG511, I still cannot connect.

Maurice Meneguzzi

Maurice,

Couple things to check:

Is your office wifi using mac filtering? If so, the wifi router will have to be updated to add the mac address of the WAG511.

I use mac filtering at home, to ensure only my wifi devices can connect.

You have verified the actual driver is installed, based on your earlier comment.

Run ifconfig in a terminal to ensure the wireless interface is actually up. It probably won't have an ip address or be associated, since you are yet unable to connect.

Please report back to Launchpad and mark this question Solved if this resolves your issue.

Thanks!

Harvey

Harvey,

I had already verified both. The mac address of the WAG511 is already on the router. The same laptop connects perfectly well with windows. Also the interface is up.

Thanks,

Maurice Meneguzzi

Hello,

Suddenly it started working. I have not done anything different, except putting the laptop in the line of sight of the wireless access point. May be the strength of the signal helped.

Thank you guys for your help.

Maurice Meneguzzi