Re: Question about wireless support
--- Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 12:29 -0500, Numberwhun wrote: Hello! I am just curious if anyone here has had any experience with using wireless cards with Linux? I have one of the Linksys pci cards that holds one of the pcmcia wireless (802.11b) cards and was wanting to use it with Fedora Core 3. Haven't used the Linksys cards. I use an Atheros based pcmcia card - no problems. All I have to do is grab the madwifi kernel mods (http://madwifi.sf.net), and compile the modules for my kernel. jeff ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Question about wireless support
Hello! I am just curious if anyone here has had any experience with using wireless cards with Linux? I have one of the Linksys pci cards that holds one of the pcmcia wireless (802.11b) cards and was wanting to use it with Fedora Core 3. If anyone has any experince with this combination ( or another distribution) please respond. Thanks! Regards, Jeff Kirkland ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Question about wireless support
On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 12:29 -0500, Numberwhun wrote: Hello! I am just curious if anyone here has had any experience with using wireless cards with Linux? I have one of the Linksys pci cards that holds one of the pcmcia wireless (802.11b) cards and was wanting to use it with Fedora Core 3. I use a Belkin PCMCIA card with Linux. This may or may not help you with your Linksys PCI, but I had to: 1) Reconfigure the kernel to support Wireless. 2) Compile and install the driver for the card. 3) Set up the various configuration files in the /etc/sysconfig, etc. The details are likely to be different for your card, but you'll probably have to go through the above steps, unless support for the card is native to your distro. Hopefully there is someone else here who has experience with your specific card. A real sensitive issue is the driver/kernel mix. Drivers are not always kept up to date with the latest kernel releases, so if you are like me who has to have the latest and greatest of everything, you are likely to be disappointed. In short, getting wireless cards to work can be highly nontrivial, depending on the card. Googling will be your close friend under these circumstances. -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Question about wireless support
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Numberwhun wrote: Hello! I am just curious if anyone here has had any experience with using wireless cards with Linux? I have one of the Linksys pci cards that holds one of the pcmcia wireless (802.11b) cards and was wanting to use it with Fedora Core 3. I've had a lot of luck with the ndiswrapper, they show all of the different successes on the site, I believe: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net While not native, it's allowed me to use the built in stuff on my laptop with great success. Ben -- An overcrowded chicken farm produces fewer eggs. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
