Well I would have tried a newer distro of Linux, since more wi-fi drivers would be in the Kernel, etc.
http://daemonizer.de/prism54/wg511/
http://www.larsen-b.com/Article/73.html
Some wi-fi cards have different chipsets which make Linux drivers a bit of a trial.
http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/month=20050901
He may have to use the Windows drivers with Madwifi that means adding Wine, etc.
Puppy has better support for wi-fi than DSL.
Joan in Reno
--- On Thu, 7/8/10, iloveubuntulinux <valchaulinux@gmail.com> wrote:
From: iloveubuntulinux <valchaulinux@gmail.com>
Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] another question: user running Ubuntu 8.10 on Dell Inspiron..
To: LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, July 8, 2010, 10:14 PM
I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 on a Dell Inspiron 2650 laptop (Pentium 4 @ 1.6 GHz / 512 Mb) and trying to use a Netgear WG511 PCMCIA wifi card. No luck with getting the card to work.
This is from another friend who 'doesn't like Linux' because he put it on the wrong machine...
I suggested he try DSL (damn small Linux) but I don't know if it could work with his wifi card either. Any ideas?
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