[plug] wireless nic setup problem

[Caleb Duggan]

There's a really helpful guy on the madwifi irc channel.


On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 10:52:41 +0800, Jon  Miller  
<jlmiller at mmtnetworks.com.au> wrote:

> I'm having problems setting up my netgear WG511T 108Mbps wireless nic on  
> my IBM ThinkPad A22m.  It uses the atheros chipset.  I'm using SUSE 10.0  
> OSS, YAST sees and cofigure the nic but it does not get an IP Address  
> from the SpeedStream modem.  Although another laptop with the NetGear  
> WG511v2 54Mbps on a Windows XP system is working fine.  Not that this  
> proves a lot other than the DHCP is working.
> I went to the website madwifi.org to check ut the document Newbie HowTo  
> for wireless nic setup I ran into problems in the conpiling of the  
> program.  Stating that 'cc: command not found
> and only kernel versions 2.4.x and above are supported although the  
> kernel version of this laptop is 2.6.13.
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Jon
>
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