Installation

Hope someone can assist.

I have a Netgear WG311 card in an old Gateway E-1400 - harware all OK and the wireless card works in another PC with XP running on it (IBM ThinkCentre - 8184-D3M).
LAN (fxp0) and WAN (fxp1) OK but for the life of me it won't see the card.
I try manually entering ath0, ath1 and even ath2 at the console without luck.

The WG311 will probably only ever have one laptop (rearly more) ever connected to it so I felt this would be OK.

The WG311 is PCI 2.2 compliant and I feel the PC's hardware is but haven't been able to confirm this.

I found you can't use the 'a' for autoconfiguration like the LAN and WAN  as you don't have a cable to unplug and then plug in.

I'm thinking about buying a gruntier card for greater coverage eventually.

Am I doing something wrong?
Am I pushing you-know-what up hill with this card? ...any card suggestions?
Should I use hardware a little more updated?

Like I said, all else works fine...I even upgraded from v1.23 to 1.3b4.
Should it have been a fresh install?

I'm all out of ideas but want to persue using m0n0wall as IPCop gave me grief.

Cheers.

Found the way around this one.

It appears the card is not supported.

I inserted a D-Link DWL-G520 - it was auto-detected after bootup.
A quick rejig with the console and WebGUI and we're off.

...even after some mucking around it looks like I've managed to get mac-filtering to work.

Will be testing tomorrow.