On 2005.06.20 20:55, Brett Parker wrote:
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!") :)
The card that I have works perfectly well using ndiswrapper but I have to load and unload some of the stuff manually.
I can unplug the card without problems but I then MUST unload the ndiswrapper module otherwise when the card is next plugged in I lose the keyboard.
I cannot get the encryption key applied automatically and have to do that by hand. It works but not automatically.