On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:02:49 +0700 Fajar Priyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I haven't tried any wireless device before. So, could you pls help me: > 1. Are those devices have linux driver? Because in the specification Maybe there is a driver, depends on the device. A friend and I (he has started to get his feet wet in Mandrake, but also has Kanotix and other distributions to try) were trying to get this working but it doesn't seem to be as easy as it sounds. He has a Netgear MA111. It seems that the kernel modules are available (prism2_usb) but 'ifconfig wlan0' comes back with blanks for an inet addr. So far, we've (in Mandrake) tried mcc and adding a new wireless connection with all three variants of the prism driver. The net (pardon the pun) result is thrown for a loop while the system reports "found <driver> devices" then asks you if there is another one. One thinks at this point the output should be "found no <driver> devices", right? We are completely unsure as to what values if any to put in the choices for the various drivers. There are some howto's (there is a rather big wireless howto, there's the linux-wlan-ng project etc.) but they drown in material (especially the wireless howto, some 80 pages at least) that it's not altogether easy to say "do 1, 2, and 3" and bingo -- wireless. It would be rather nice to see that. I already checked the Community twiki, nothing at all relevant there :(. > Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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