Netgear WG511 Wireless card with Marvell chip

[Jaap Hoetmer]

Dan, thanks. Mine's made in China...
I have tested the DriverLoader wrapper, and that seems
to work, so I guess it should still be possible to get
it to work using Ndiswrapper.
I take it from your answer that FC4 will not natively
support these cards?

Thanks,
Jaap

--- Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 14:35 +0100, Jaap Hoetmer
> wrote:
> > When ordering a new 802.11g wireless card (Netgear
> > WG511) I found out when receiving it that this
> version
> > (V2 as it appears to be) does not have a Prism GT
> > chipset, but Netgear changed to a Marvell chipset
> for
> > that card. Investigation prior to the purchase led
> me
> > to believe I was OK with this card, as the Prism
> > chipset is apparently properly supported in
> Fedora.
> 
> Where is the card made?  Versions marked "Made in
> Taiwan" will work, but
> those marked "Made in China" will not, even though
> both are "v2".  The
> China ones have a different chipset that only does
> softmac, which may be
> the Marvell one you're referring to here.
> 
> Dan
> 
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