Justin wrote:
The ndiswrapper solution is interesting, but if you're curious at all, the madwifi drivers seem to work perfectly well, and support WPA, etc. I would imagine its possible that in the future they could support newer versions of the 802.11 spec, given that you dont need a change in the radio.
The madwifi docs suggest that both the g510 and 520 are compatible; D Link suggests that the 520 can get "up to 108 Mbps!!elevens!" and that it can do WPA (slightly more important). Newegg claimed the 510 didnt do WPA (it seems it does) so that's why I wound up paying ten bucks extra for nothing, it seems. Anyways, just a thought that you or anyone else following along might check it out, especially if you're considering AMD64.
Justin
Yeah, I started encountering drops and lost sync with ndiswrapper so I am trying madwifi now. It detects the card, but I must not be entering my key or something correctly because I am not getting a lease. I used the atrpms RPM for madwifi and iwconfig to enter the key, essid and so forth. One thing that I found I had to enter under ndiswrapper was the freq but I get an error trying to enter that with madwifi using iwconfig. More to play with I guess.
Thanks,
Brad