Netgear WG511v2 on Compaq Presario 703jp
With the combination of hardware mentioned above I followed the step by step instructions from the article on Debian Administration: Wireless networking using the ndiswrapper module.
While the article was written in the time of Sarge, the only thing I had to change was the line:
apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils-1.8
The current version of ndiswrapper-utils in Etch repositories is 1.9, thus the above command should be changed to:
apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
Updated 27.2.2008
After kernel upgrade, the wireless card of course stops to work and it is time to repeat some of the steps mentioned above. In short, the commands needed to repeat are:
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module-assistant prepare -
module-assistant build ndiswrapper -
module-assistant install ndiswrapper
That’s it! From now on, everything should work as it was working before kernel upgrade.