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What are the intructions for turning on the netgear wireless card?
Some of the netgear cards don't have up-to-date firmware on them. So they work but they don't function as well as possible. Luckily, the linux hostap driver comes with the ability to reflash the firmware on these cards. The instructions are here.

Everything's in the buildroot to do this reflash; patch the header file manually in the linux source tree to turn on the &quot;let me flash firmware&quot; stuff. It may just involve uncommenting one #define line or something from memory. Then upgrade with the latest firmware that is linked from that page above.

With or without the firmware flashing, plug the wifi card into a factory-image gumstix+cfstix and it should just work. Use &quot;iwconfig&quot; to associate with your AP.