wireless card doesn't work...

kalinix calin.kalinix.cosma at gmail.com
Sun Dec 31 18:53:18 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 13:34 -0500, Mike Chalmers wrote:
> On 12/31/06, Dave Sampson <samper.d at gmail.com> wrote:
> > My recomendation, that may draw flames would be to forget about FEDORA's
> > guis for now...
> >
> > Get it working from the command line. even if you only test it using PING.
> >
> > I find that FEDORA gui's work fine when the hardware is recognized on
> > bootup. but special software I find battling the GUI's slow me down
> > until I understand what the problem is. sometimes you need an updated
> > driver, or try a different backend. then GUI is a frontend that works
> > with different backends.
> >
> > Myself I have to run a Shell script manualy to get my ACX100 chipset to
> > work... it took me a month or so of tinkering, but I got the card to
> > work. All I needed was the NDISWRAPER and it worked like a charm.  kinda
> > cheating in the eyes of open source, but what works eh?.... then my guis
> > recognized it flawlessly.
> >
> > Again, I bid you fun and luck.
> >
> > Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > > Dave Sampson wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >> Try out this tutorial:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > > http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch13_:_Linux_Wireless_Networking
> > >
> > >> The wireless battle is a fun one... good luck
> > >>
> > >
> > > Linux WiFi is not fun.
> > > Setting up and maintaining a WiFi LAN
> > > is a very painful experience.
> > >
> > > The tutorial above seems rather good,
> > > though it doesn't mention NetworkManager.
> > > I've been trying this for a couple of weeks,
> > > and have very mixed feelings about it.
> > > When it works it is fine;
> > > when it stops working it is very hard to recover,
> > > in my experience.
> > > Even re-booting often will not do the trick,
> > > at least in my setup.
> > >
> > >
> >
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> I am going to try Ndis wrapper. Does anyone know anything about this?
> 


Mike,

don't know if you saw this. Is not fedora (unfortunately :) ) but I hope
it helps.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1738714


Calin

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