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Barry Samuels bjsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk wrote:
It's the WG511 v2 which is made in China. I bought it because the WG511 was so well supported in Linux and then discovered that they had changed the innards with this one and Prism54 no longer worked with it.
Ahh - any of the WG511 that have Made in China are really evil, they provide the same PCI id's but aren't really the same cards. I've just unplugged and checked my WG511 and can confirm, categorically, that it's a v2.0 Made in Taiwan WG511 (I've got a Made in China one, it doesn't work correctly ;).
I've had to use ndiswrapper to get it workng.
Unfortunately, that's the case I'm afraid :(
Knowing how difficult it is to get hold of the WG511 v2.0 Made in Taiwan, I now suggest getting the WG511T instead, as it's supported by the madwifi driver, and tends to 'just work'. Jenny has one, and we got hers working fairly quickly (IRC support in #alug) within a fairly short amount of time (OK - I admit that I bought one in preperation and checked that it worked, and found the relevant debian sources for this so that it was a case of "add this to sources.list, grab the kernel headers, run this, done!") :)
Cheers, - -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk