[vox-tech] Netgear MA521 PCMCIA wireless card

David Jeffrey Barnum vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
07 Jan 2004 17:19:07 -0800


Well, I put on Red Hat 9, and I was hoping to use my Netgear wireless 
card.  Unfortunately, it wasn't that easy.  Nowhere in the "wireless" 
portion of the networking section is Netgear anything.  I have looked it
up, and the chipset is a Realtek 8180 something or other inside the 
card.  If anyone has any ideas on how to fix this, suggestions would be 
greatly appreciated.

I have a Toshiba laptop, with integrated wired ethernet.  

my lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device cbb2 (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 7010
00:03.0 Modem: ALi Corporation Intel 537 [M5457 AC-Link Modem]
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link
Controller Audio Device (rev 02)
00:06.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 PMU
00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV]
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev aa)
00:0a.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev aa)
00:0a.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller
(rev 02)
00:0c.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 50)
00:0c.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 50)
00:0c.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 340M
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.: Unknown
device 8180 (rev 20)

Thanks in advance!

David Barnum