[Prism54-devel] Netgear WG511

[Carl Myers]

Greetings all,

I recently purchased a Netgear WG511 card online, hoping to replace my 
broadcom chipset with one that has native linux driver support.  Alas, 
it was impossible to tell from the order page, and I didn't even know 
there were versions which the driver support doesn't work on (namely, 
the newer v3.0 "made-in-china" ones).

I am writing to ask for confirmation that the drivers are known to not 
work with this card, and ask if any known workarounds exist.  I would 
also be willing to help with development however possible.

Here's how it is:  I am a computer engineering student at Purdue 
University.  I haven't taken the operating systems class yet, but I have 
pretty decent programing experience in C and a few years of linux 
experience.  However, I have never contributed to the kernel, or any 
other projects, past hacking out a few lines of code to fix the broken 
ACPI with my old compaq laptop.  If there's anything I can do to assist 
in development, I'm willing and eager to learn, but if holding my hand 
to get me started would be more trouble than I could contribute to the 
project, nevermind and I'll stick to beta testing =).

So in short, I would love to get my card working, but wether that 
happens any time soon or not, I remain at your disposal =)

Carl Myers (Zetabyte in IRC)

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Carl Myers
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Purdue University

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