Netgear WPN311 with Fedora Core 6

[inufreak483]

Alright, I just bought a Netgear WPN311 Wireless G PCI card for my girlfriend's computer (which is running FC6) and I searched around on here and it would appear I need the madwifi thing, however, after going to their site, unpacking the download I remembered which I can't make (compile, w/e) the code because the "make" command always returns an error (because I didn't install her FC6 with that support because I didn't think she'd be needing to compile source code >.<) and it's not as if I can just yum it either....

So can someone either direct me to:
1. A way to easily get this madwifi working on her computer so I can get the card working

OR

2. Another whatever to detect the card and get it working

OR

3. A better wireless PCI card to install in her computer that would just be recognized when I install it (or at least with less work)

[inufreak483]

Bump. Can someone please help :(

[guizhou_donkey]

I'm also having trouble with the Netgear WPN311. Anyone have any luck getting it working on Fedora or another distribution?

[FriedChips]

Alright, I just bought a Netgear WPN311 Wireless G PCI card for my girlfriend's computer (which is running FC6) and I searched around on here and it would appear I need the madwifi thing, however, after going to their site, unpacking the download I remembered which I can't make (compile, w/e) the code because the "make" command always returns an error (because I didn't install her FC6 with that support because I didn't think she'd be needing to compile source code >.<) and it's not as if I can just yum it either....

So can someone either direct me to:
1. A way to easily get this madwifi working on her computer so I can get the card working

OR

2. Another whatever to detect the card and get it working

OR

3. A better wireless PCI card to install in her computer that would just be recognized when I install it (or at least with less work)

If you really just don't want to download and install F7 or 8 you could probably just enable F7's repo and install make automake gcc etc... For kernel-devel you will need to check koji.

[guizhou_donkey]

I'm running Fedora 8 right now, but the wireless card is still not natively supported. I'm going to try installing madwifi in a minute and see if that works.

[FriedChips]

I don't know if mad-wifi supports it or not. If not I'm pretty sure ndiswrapper will.

[guizhou_donkey]

I tried ndiswrapper also, but the biggest problem is i can't find the .inf,etc for the drivers. The netgear site provides a windows-install wizard only, and the only version i could find that just has the zipped .inf + .sys files was an old beta version of the drivers for vista, which didn't work for me :\