What version of RedHat are you running?  I heard that 8.0 has superb
wireless support.  That's just what I've heard though, I haven't gone
wireless yet.

-Jon

On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 20:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I installed a new NetGear PCMCIA wireless card yesterday, along with a new 
> wireless access point. The box said it was compatible with all kinds of 
> operating systems, including Linux. I opened it up, stuck the card in and 
> booted Windows. With not too much hassle, I got everything working right. 
> Then I looked in the documentation for what to do when I boot into Linux. 
> Not a word about Linux anywhere in the docs., Go to NetGear's web site. 
> Their answer is that they don't support Linux, ask the Linux vendor. Don't 
> that beat all? So, now I'm stuck without a clue. How do I get Linux to 
> recognize the wireless, set up the WEP encryption (128 bit) and be able to 
> network/internet with the wireless card? 
> 
> BTW, am I missing something as far as documentation goes? I've lots of 
> information in man pages, a whole lot more in HTML pages, and none of it 
> has a decent index/search capability. I'm sorry, but I'll be d***d before 
> I sit down and plow through a manual page by page just to find one tidbit 
> of information I happen to need at the moment. Understand me, I'm 
> struggling mightily to get away from MS. The lack of an effective 
> documentation search mechanism is very much hindering the effort. Surely 
> there is an indexed (as in b-trieve) set of documentation that supports 
> basic word searching. Where is it?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Randy
> 
> Randolph "Randy" L. Chrismon
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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-Jon "GenKiller" Gaudette
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