Wg311t Tried Everything ...nothing Works

I'm new to linux. I love the interface of openSUSE 10.3 and everything about it. I consider myself to be more than adequate when it comes to windows xp and mac. I had one class in visual basic and c++ but thats it. But now I might just give up on linux all together because I just can't get my netgear wg311t to install with madwifi. :angry:
Here's the deal:
I used 1-click install for Yast...everything went ok
If I go into software management I see "madwifi" in the installed column
I rebooted (to be safe) and went to "network card" ...nothing except my wired connection
tried to search for "modprobe ath_pci" in root and I get "FATAL: Module ath_pci not found."
I have tried many different approaches for 3 days and now I'm stuck..here's some info
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26: PCI 201.0: 0200 Ethernet controller
[Created at pci.301]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_168c_13
Unique ID: GA8e.6YBoXuWNRV3
Parent ID: qscc.hTSZxA6Z5F6
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.4/0000:02:01.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:02:01.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: "Netgear AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor"
Vendor: pci 0x168c "Atheros Communications, Inc."
Device: pci 0x0013 "AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor"
SubVendor: pci 0x1385 "Netgear"
SubDevice: pci 0x5a00
Revision: 0x01
Memory Range: 0xfdde0000-0xfddeffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 11 (no events)
Module Alias: "pci:v0000168Cd00000013sv00001385sd00005A00bc02sc0 0i00"
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #19 (PCI bridge)
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All and any help would be appreciated.

is it the standard or v2 of the device ? if it is v2 you won't have much luck, maybe try ndiswrapper

Andy

is it the standard or v2 of the device ? if it is v2 you won't have much luck, maybe try ndiswrapper

Andy
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not the v2

32bit or 64bit SuSE ? if 64bit,you will have lots of problems with wireless, as not many 64bit drivers work very well

Andy

32bit or 64bit SuSE ? if 64bit,you will have lots of problems with wireless, as not many 64bit drivers work very well

Andy
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I do have 64 bit ..so your saying just go with the 32 bit and my problem should be solved? That would be great

yeah, go with 32bit SuSE, will be easy to get wireless working with madwifi, just install madwifi default & kmp & you will be ok

Andy

yeah, go with 32bit SuSE, will be easy to get wireless working with madwifi, just install madwifi default & kmp & you will be ok

Andy
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thanks ill try that

thanks ill try that
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I put on 32-bit openSUSE. I did the one-click install and everything went ok. but...

I cant find a kmp that matches my "2.6.22.5-31-default"
and I've been getting this error a lot
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/bin/sh: cc: command not found
Makefile.inc:81: *** Cannot detect kernel version - please check compiler and KERNELPATH. Stop.
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whats this mean?

did you install gcc/gcc++ and kernel sources ? if not, do so, should resolve the problem

Andy