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[Ed Harrison <eharrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> And someone else says this device isn't supported yet, which I suspected, but 
> I know there are people here who can do almost anything.  That's why I 
> offered to pay.  This is a work machine and I need wireless.  But maybe it 
> can't be done in this case, but I really do appreciate the responses.
Not necessarily.  My 2 cents' worth.

I wanted to experiment with wireless on my desktop, cheaply.  I found a
good deal on a wireless usb device that was supposed to be based on
atheros.  It was a Netgear (notably Linux unfriendly). It didn't work,
trying all the stuff that you mentioned.  So I got the latest
ndiswrapper (1.49) and the windows driver from the Netgear site.  I
works, but the firmware and other configs are stored in
/etc/ndiswrapper/netwg11t.  If the ndiswrapper module does not load it
properly, I sometimes have to unplug the device, uninstall it with
ndiswrapper -e netwg11t and then re-install it with ndiswrapper -i
netwg11t.inf.  When I replug it in the computer, it works again.  This
does not happen often, but I have found this workaround when it does.

So, I can have wireless, and at 108 kps.

Researching your card from a windows perspective, and then using
ndiswrapper may work for you.  Better in my opinion that trying just any
old usb device.  You might run into what I did, and then not be able to
get it to work.

Ed Harrison
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