Hi, I have been trying unsuccessfully to get my Netgear MA521 PCMCIA Lancard work under RHEL 4.
According to Google, it has a RTL 8180 Chipset and the driver provided in the Realtek website doesn't work with my version of the kernel.
Anyone has been successful in getting it worked?.
Thanks,
Richard
On Friday 07 July 2006 09:45, Richard wrote:
Hi, I have been trying unsuccessfully to get my Netgear MA521 PCMCIA Lancard work under RHEL 4.
According to Google, it has a RTL 8180 Chipset and the driver provided in the Realtek website doesn't work with my version of the kernel.
Anyone has been successful in getting it worked?.
NDISWrapper is your best shot. It works almost all the time. But be careful since you have a server there. Windows drivers and NDISWrapper in general have a certain knack to crash the Linux kernel.
If you do require Wifi connectivity on your server I would recommend using a _wired_ ethernet card connected to a wifi AP / Router. Thats the best and safest way to go wireless on your server :)
And a tip, stay away from Netgear. Their wifi cards are very Linux unfriendly...
On 7/7/06, Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com wrote:
Anyone has been successful in getting it worked?.
NDISWrapper is your best shot. It works almost all the time. But be careful since you have a server there. Windows drivers and NDISWrapper in general have a certain knack to crash the Linux kernel.
It works with NDISWrapper. Here is the list of devices which are compatible with ndiswrapper.
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List
On 7/7/06, Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday 07 July 2006 09:45, Richard wrote:
Hi, I have been trying unsuccessfully to get my Netgear MA521 PCMCIA Lancard work under RHEL 4.
If you do require Wifi connectivity on your server I would recommend using a _wired_ ethernet card connected to a wifi AP / Router. Thats the best and safest way to go wireless on your server :)
richard seems to be using it on a laptop . might be running rhel desktop variant of the os.
Harsh Busa wrote:
On 7/7/06, Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday 07 July 2006 09:45, Richard wrote:
Hi, I have been trying unsuccessfully to get my Netgear MA521 PCMCIA Lancard work under RHEL 4.
If you do require Wifi connectivity on your server I would recommend using a _wired_ ethernet card connected to a wifi AP / Router. Thats the best and safest way to go wireless on your server :)
richard seems to be using it on a laptop . might be running rhel desktop variant of the os.
Yes I am running RHEL 4 WS. The workstation software of RHEL. Sorry for not mentioning this.
At the risk of stating the obvious, I said PCMCIA, which I thought was only available on Laptops. :-)
I will try the NDIS wrapper and see if it works. Thanks,
Richard
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