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From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: Steven Wheeler <stevenwheel@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problems with Netgear WG511v1 PCMCIA
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:35:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1269232531.18891.6.camel@mj> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002a01cac969$b726e8d0$2574ba70$@com>

On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 21:45 -0500, Steven Wheeler wrote:
> I am attempting to resurrect my old Toshiba Portege 3110CT laptop
> Installed Slackware 12.2 on it and all is working well except for my
> WG511v1.

Sorry for being blunt, but please don't expect anyone who is busy
hacking wireless drivers to pull Slackware 12.1 and see what kernel
version it has.

> I have reached my knowledge limit and if anyone has a suggestion to try I
> would appreciate it.  I am really hoping I can use this card since money is
> tight right now

Understood.

> Mar 21 21:29:01 PopsLT kernel: p54: unknown eeprom code : 0x1
> Mar 21 21:29:01 PopsLT kernel: p54: unknown eeprom code : 0x3

If I remember correctly, it's harmless.

Since you are using a softmac driver, and you kernel is likely old, you
have basically two options.

1) Try the fullmac driver (prism54).
2) Try compat-wireless.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-22  4:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-22  2:45 Problems with Netgear WG511v1 PCMCIA Steven Wheeler
2010-03-22  4:35 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2010-03-22  8:43   ` Steven Wheeler
2010-03-22 15:47     ` Christian Lamparter
2010-03-22 16:37       ` Steven Wheeler
2010-03-22 17:07         ` Christian Lamparter
2010-03-23 21:11           ` Steven Wheeler

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