David, Thanks so much for your response. Indeed, I have checked on those sites, but I was maybe hoping for a "miracle" driver...:) I guess I'll have to wait. Thanks once again...
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 20:11, David A. Cafaro wrote: > If that card is a Prims54/GT based card then you may be out of luck > right now. Though the Chipset is supported, the USB connector hasn't > been written quote: > > "As for the USB Devices, like the WUSB54G, this does have a Prism > chipset but we have to write the USB glue to the driver. This has not > yet been done. Please wait." > > >From this page: > http://prism54.org/supported_cards.php > > And checking this page it is indeed a PrismGT card: > http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz > > > And it doesn't look like www.linuxant.com/driverloader/ supports USB > devices either: > http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/faq.php?PHPSESSID=a6e31f580beb35162b8606d03fa0b6e3 > > Sorry, wish it was better news. > > -David > > On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 18:29, William Villalba wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > I am trying to set up a Netgear WG121 wireless usb adapter in two > > desktops, but I am having a bit of trouble with it. I previously have > > set another one up in my laptop--a Netgear MA111 usb wireless > > adapter--which is working well. I have Slackware 10.0 and Fedora Core 2 > > in my laptop, both using kernel 2.6. Given the good results with this > > adapter--the Netgear MA111--, I got a couple of Netgear WG121 to use at > > home with two desktops. Since the MA111 uses the wlan-ng driver, I tried > > this same driver for the WG121 with no luck. One of the desktop--a > > pentium III-- has Suse 9.1 with kernel 2.4 and in the other desktop--a > > pentium IV--I am using Gentoo and Mandrake 10.0 both with kernel 2.6. I > > did a search on the WG121 usb adapter and saw that it has been tested > > with the prism gt--prism54--which I tried as well with no results > > either. > > > > Has anyone tried or known someone who has tested this adapter (the > > Netgear WG121 usb)? Am I using the wrong driver or is there any > > particular setting or issue I have to take into consideration? In order > > to install it, I have recompiled the kernels as stated in the readme > > with its complete kernel tree. In the case of gentoo, I tried to > > "emerge" with FEATURES="usb -pci -sandbox" emerge net-wireless/prism54, > > but it gives error and suggests to add "=". Do I have to emerge it, > > ebuild it or should I install it from source? I was hoping to have > > better luck with gentoo since it takes care of dependencies or possible > > problems that may occur. Could anyone be so kind and suggest possible > > solutions, links, drivers? I really would like to make this adapter work > > under linux. > > > > Any help would be greatly appreciate it. > > > > Thanks so much for your time and consideration. > > > > william > -- > David A. Cafaro > dac(at)cafaro.net > Admin to User: "You did what!?!?!" -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
