[TriLUG] Netgear WG121 Wireless usb adapter

[William Villalba]

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
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