Replying to both your messages together.
At 10:12 PM 8/21/2004 -0700, Adam Boettiger wrote: James and Ray -
Thanks for the help.
I couldn't figure out how to install the linuxant.com solution, although that looks like it would work.
Did you look at the instructions on the following URL?
http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/install.php?PHPSESSID=c62f3bc5fc1f9c6e87f206b3c1967db5
"Method A" there offers specific (and, seemingly, very simple) instructions for rpm-based distros, which I assume Fedora is. Certainly the Debian instructions ("Method B") are crystal clear (I use Debian here, so can judge DEbian procedures a bit more readily than Fedora procedures).
But from reading on at this URL, I note that you have to go on to install a driver from the card vendor. This makes me think that linuxant's solution offers less than meets the eye, and you might do as well, whihe saving $19.95, to use the (free) ndis package at the Sourceforge site (which lists a Fedora package).
In Google I narrowed it down to this but have no idea how to install it or configure it.
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=4767653&forum_id=38938
Not being a Fedora user, I cannot give you specific help on this. I can tell you that apt-get is the standard Debian (not Fedora) package installer, so unless RH has adapted it for use in Fedora, the suggested procedure is non-standard for that distro (which I would expect to be rpm based).
At 10:27 PM 8/21/2004 -0700, Adam Boettiger wrote:
Eh, I guess it's still in Alpha or Beta... http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-May/msg06271.html
So hmmm.
Do I now have to go out and buy a Fedora-friendly wireless card, even though wireless comes preinstalled on the computer?
Did you look at the ndis package that I told you about (see my prior message for the URL)? My son just set up a wireless-G LAN at his apartment using it. He's still having a bit of trouble with it (involving some sort of sensitivity to the timing of when he initializes the interface during boot/init; I don't know the details), but basically it works.
Aparently so. If so, is there a list or recommendations somewhere for Fedora Core 2 friendly 802.11x cards and drivers?
It would help if you replaced "x" with either "b" or "g". As far as I can tell, there are very few 802.11g cards (chipsets) with native support at this point, but a fair number of 802.11b cards (still only a few chipsets, though).
If you are not finding the sort of list you want in the usual Fedora support channels (and I infer from your other messages that you've been diligent about looking there), then you'd do best to replace "Fedora Core 2 friendly" with the less demanding "Linux friendly" in your searching. By that standard, one of the URLs I already provided has a big list of cards/chipsets, along with information about which ones have been found to work with various of the native-mode (not ndis) drivers that do exist.
Surely I am not the first person who has wanted to use linux on a WLAN via cable modem access...
Hardly. I did it a couple of years ago, with a wireless-B card. At the time, though, we were careful to get one of the (then, very few) cards with native Linux support (via the wlan-ng package, which back then was pretty much the only game in town). Since I gathered that you were loking for wireless-G, not wireless-B, support, I didn't mention wlan-ng in my prior message. But if you can make do with the slower speed of 802.11b, then you might look at it (it's also at Sourceforge).
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