Re: wireless - is it possible?

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On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 22:36 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:

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To find out which chipset your dongles use, try Googleing with
" linux WG111". You should have the chipset in the 1st or 2nd page.


Take a look at <http://madwifi.org> . Look for the Compatibility
page. It shows all of the Atheros cards that work with the madwifi
drivers. I have had very good results with the Netgear WG511U V2
PCMCIA cards. Very easy to setup and operate in a lot of different
modes.

The latest madwifi packages in testing (0.9.3-1) are working here on 3
Thinkpads and 2 desktops.

I have 2 USB dongles that use the rt2x00 drivers but they only partially
work. It took me less then an hour to get the WG511U's running as in
AP, Ad-Hoc and Managed modes. They are realy good in wardriving as
well with kismet.
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About the Netgear WG111, the madwifi site says:
"Rev 02 has a TI chip, and is not compatible (Device Information :
104c:9066, Work with ndiswrapper)."

That's why I didn't buy one.

The site does not seem to mention the MA111.


So, if you checked on google first, you would not have purchased either
one of those. See, your learning.

I did install ndiswrapper-common, but when I run sudo ndiswrapper, i
get:
"Error: no versions of ndiswrapper found!"

Another lesson learned! You didn't install everything required.

VT1 root-3-TESTING:~# apt-cache search ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper-common - Common scripts required to use the utilities for ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper-source - Source for the ndiswrapper linux kernel module
ndiswrapper-utils - Userspace utilities for ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper-utils-1.1 - Userspace utilities for ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 - Userspace utilities for the ndiswrapper linux kernel module

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I do not want to use ndiswrapper. I did a lot of searching for, not
only a Wireless card, but one that would function on Linux. I don't
know anything about how to use ndiswrapper so can't help you with it.

I can tell you that _installing_ it is no different then installing
the madwifi drivers. If you learn how to install it, you are well on
your way. Don't forget Google. The ndiswrapper _is_ used on linux by
a lot of people and many have pointed out how they accomplished it, on
Google.

Good Luck!

Wayne

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