Re: wireless card doesn't work...

On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 13:34 -0500, Mike Chalmers wrote:
On 12/31/06, Dave Sampson <samper.d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My recomendation, that may draw flames would be to forget about FEDORA's
guis for now...

Get it working from the command line. even if you only test it using PING.

I find that FEDORA gui's work fine when the hardware is recognized on
bootup. but special software I find battling the GUI's slow me down
until I understand what the problem is. sometimes you need an updated
driver, or try a different backend. then GUI is a frontend that works
with different backends.

Myself I have to run a Shell script manualy to get my ACX100 chipset to
work... it took me a month or so of tinkering, but I got the card to
work. All I needed was the NDISWRAPER and it worked like a charm. kinda
cheating in the eyes of open source, but what works eh?.... then my guis
recognized it flawlessly.

Again, I bid you fun and luck.

Timothy Murphy wrote:
Dave Sampson wrote:


Try out this tutorial:



http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch13_:_Linux_Wireless_Networking

The wireless battle is a fun one... good luck


Linux WiFi is not fun.
Setting up and maintaining a WiFi LAN
is a very painful experience.

The tutorial above seems rather good,
though it doesn't mention NetworkManager.
I've been trying this for a couple of weeks,
and have very mixed feelings about it.
When it works it is fine;
when it stops working it is very hard to recover,
in my experience.
Even re-booting often will not do the trick,
at least in my setup.



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I am going to try Ndis wrapper. Does anyone know anything about this?



Mike,

don't know if you saw this. Is not fedora (unfortunately :) ) but I hope
it helps.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1738714


Calin

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