[CentOS] Netgear WG511v2 card and CentOS 4.4

Fri May 11 21:18:35 UTC 2007
Greg Bailey <gbailey at lxpro.com>

Camron W. Fox wrote:
> Alle,
>
>     Does anyone have any experience with with Netgear WG511v2 cards 
> and V4.4? I read the post @ 
> http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=4600&forum=30&post_id=13268#forumpost13268 
> but the system doesn't even seem to see the card.
>     "/sbin/cardctl ident" shows no info on slot 0/1. "/sbin/modprobe 
> prism54" comes back with nothing.
>     I thought this was supposed to work out of the box. Any help would 
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> Best Regards,
> Camron
>

Cameron,

Unfortunately, the Netgear WG511 and WG511v2 are completely different.  
The "plain" WG511 does in fact use the prism54 driver, but I believe the 
WG511v2 is based on a different chipset.

-Greg