On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 01:34:53PM -0600, stormi wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 15:15 -0400, Scott wrote:
> Ouch. I did something similar with the "new" router here. I used a
> passphrase that originally had no caps in it, for testing. Then in one
> of the iterations of testing, I introduced a capital letter by accident
> in the router interface. I beat my head against the wall for probably
> 20 mins over it, looking strictly at the client machine as the fault of
> course.
(Best Maxwell Smart voice)
Ahh yes. The old capital letter trick.
>
> Go to the Computer Management screen, select Network and Internet
> settings, select wireless, then Mdk will tell you that it needs to
> install the wpa-supplicant package, and does it. Then when the wireless
> screen opens, you have the choice of the native driver (if available)
> and the "windows driver". If you chose windows driver, it will prompt
> again, letting you know that it needs to install ndiswrapper. Once
> that's done, it will ask for the .inf file for the windows driver, which
> you should have downloaded and unzipped. Point it to that, and the next
> step is to select your AP, and enter the WPA key. Done.
>
> I don't think that's many more steps than if you buy a new wireless card
> and have to install the drivers...
Not to mention, no reboot.
>
I remember booting with some live CD or another based on Mdk--I can't
think of the name. Then, I found that my cable was disconnected but it
had not only automagically found and used the wireless card but attached
to an unsecured network in my building. :) (Sorry, whoever has MS
HOME).
With an install of the Windows CD that comes with that computer on the
other hand, first I have to install Windows. Reboot. Install the
driver disk. Reboot several times.
Then, of course, joining the network. Frankly, my experience with
wireless has been far better with Linux.
--
Scott
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