usb wireless card

2010-04-10 Thread Michael Havens
what do you recommend that will work on my ubuntuu and that is cheap?? -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

Re: usb wireless card

2010-04-10 Thread mike Enriquez
Michael, I asked the group the same question and someone replied that Netgear Wireless G USB adapter WG111 would work out of the box. I found it at Fry's for $35.00 plug it in and it worked. I didn't have to configer it or anything it works great. I tired a bunch of other cards and they did

Re: usb wireless card

2010-04-10 Thread Michael Havens
thank you so much for your help! On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 8:25 PM, mike Enriquez myli...@cox.net wrote: Michael, I asked the group the same question and someone replied that Netgear Wireless G USB adapter WG111 would work out of the box. I found it at Fry's for $35.00 plug it in and it

Wireless card

2008-07-21 Thread Stephen P Rufle
Does anyone have a wireless card that they could part with. I need PCMCIA wireless card for a Dell Inspiron 5000e. kids has Kubuntu 8.04 installed already, so I would prefer if we could just put it in and have it work without NDIS wrapper but whatever. I am on the east side near Ray and Cooper

Re: wireless card and tower pc

2008-01-29 Thread stu
Try looking here: http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch13_:_Linux_Wireless_Networking It seems to have all the info you need. I run a variety of Debian/KDE based stuff and although I'm sure the madwifi setup is similar, I'm not familiar with the

Re: wireless card and tower pc

2008-01-29 Thread Michael Havens
I was thinking that what I should do is put fedora on the laptop because I have that nice instalation guide. Although I was thinking slackware. What do you all think? so I'm thinking bsd for the tower and fedora for the laptop. we need to talk about this because this will be completely new

Re: wireless card and tower pc

2008-01-29 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:52:39AM -0700, Michael Havens wrote: hm. I think I was mistaken. I do need a wireless router to feed the laptops... not just the wireless pci card or am I mistaken yet again? And if I buy a wifi router doesn't it come with a firewall? or what's up

Re: wireless card and tower pc

2008-01-29 Thread Michael Havens
hm. I think I was mistaken. I do need a wireless router to feed the laptops... not just the wireless pci card or am I mistaken yet again? And if I buy a wifi router doesn't it come with a firewall? or what's up with that? On Monday 28 January 2008 5:45 pm, Michael Havens wrote: The

Re: wireless card and tower pc

2008-01-29 Thread Michael Havens
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 12:02 pm, Darrin Chandler wrote: Most wifi cards can act as an access point :) the sales guy said the opposite. it is a linksys wmp54gs. Googling it doesn't seem to reveal anything. any ideas? --- PLUG-discuss

Re: wireless card and tower pc

2008-01-29 Thread Matt Graham
From: Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:52:39AM -0700, Michael Havens wrote: I think I was mistaken. I do need a wireless router to feed the laptops... not just the wireless pci card or am I mistaken yet again? And if I buy a wifi router doesn't it come with

Re: wireless card and tower pc

2008-01-29 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:35:34PM -0700, Michael Havens wrote: On Tuesday 29 January 2008 12:02 pm, Darrin Chandler wrote: Most wifi cards can act as an access point :) the sales guy said the opposite. it is a linksys wmp54gs. Googling it doesn't seem to reveal anything. any ideas?

Re: wireless card and tower pc

2008-01-29 Thread Michael Havens
So I suppose I'll get a wifi router and connect modem-switch which will split between tower and wifi. dDoes that sound good? On Tuesday 29 January 2008 12:44 pm, Darrin Chandler wrote: My only idea is to Google it. When that fails it's a roll of the dice. Even model numbers can be misleading

I did it now! {Re: wireless card and tower pc}

2008-01-29 Thread Michael Havens
I got a linksys (wrt54g) wireless-g broadband router. the reason I was being so obstonate in not getting this was I thought I would aso have to get the wireless card but then I noticed it is a four port switch as well. So, in my hot little hands I hold this thing but before I hook it up I need

wireless card and tower pc

2008-01-28 Thread Michael Havens
The card is not in possesion at the moment (wes tech was closed when I drove up) but I need to know if BSD/Linux will detect it. If it will be automatically detected that means things should be locked down before it is installed. If it is not to be automagically detected and made available for

Re: wireless card and tower pc

2008-01-28 Thread Michael Havens
On Monday 28 January 2008 5:45 pm, Michael Havens wrote: Then there is the laptop. how do you like that. I googled the model number and linux and found an instalation guide (only for fedora). ALAS it doesn't tell me how to configure wifi! Well it does say I need the MadWiFi driver

Re: wireless card and tower pc

2008-01-28 Thread Kristian Erik Hermansen
On Jan 28, 2008 6:54 PM, Michael Havens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do you like that. I googled the model number and linux and found an instalation guide (only for fedora). ALAS it doesn't tell me how to configure wifi! Well it does say I need the MadWiFi driver hm it

Re: wireless card and tower pc

2008-01-28 Thread Michael Havens
On Monday 28 January 2008 8:05 pm, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Madwifi great news, madwifi is already installed in the laptop and in the tower. YIPEE!!! I do not know what to do! ---