[vox-tech] Netgear MA521 PCMCIA wireless card

David Hummel vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Wed, 7 Jan 2004 17:33:58 -0800


On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 05:19:07PM -0800, David Jeffrey Barnum wrote:
> 
> 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.

Perhaps you can try these drivers available from RealTek:

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloads1-3.aspx?Keyword=8180

ftp://152.104.125.40/cn/wlan/rtl8180l/rtl8180_linuxdrv_v14_rh90.zip
ftp://210.51.181.211/cn/wlan/rtl8180l/rtl8180_linuxdrv_v14_rh90.zip
ftp://61.222.72.122/cn/wlan/rtl8180l/rtl8180_linuxdrv_v14_rh90.zip

-David