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I got a Netgear WG511v2 pcmcia card and really feared the installation and setup. But it was much easier as I thought. I only had to perform the following steps:

Basic setup or configuring ndiswrapper:

1. Copy the files WG511v2.INF and WG511v2.sys from the windows installation CDs to your local linux box
2. Issue the command 'ndiswrapper -i WG511v2.INF' to install the windows driver
3. execute 'modprobe ndiswrapper'
4. now iwconfig showed up my wlan card as wlan1 and it was ready for action

Getting wpa encryption with wpa_supplicant:

1. Setup your access point to use wpa encryption
2. Copy the basic configuration part from the wpa_supplicant README to /etc/wpa_supplicant.con and adjust it to your personal needs:

#allow frontend (e.g., wpa_cli) to be used by all users in 'root' group ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant ctrl_{interfacegroup}=root # # home network; allow all valid ciphers network={ ssid="essidfoo" scan_ssid=1 key_mgmt=WPA-PSK psk="keybar" }

1. Now start wpa_supplicant with 'wpa_supplicant -d -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -i wlan1 -D ndiswrapper' as root
2. done

Happy hotspotting ;-)!