[TriLUG] Netgear WG121 Wireless usb adapter

[David A. Cafaro]

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
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