[gentoo-user] Wireless connection intermittent on one machine

2005-06-14 Thread Grant
I have 3 Gentoo systems connected to my wireless network. 2 of them have Netgear PCMCIA wireless cards and the third has a PCI card that is a Netgear of the same series (if you know what I mean). That desktop is the farthest away from the access point, but it has had a rock-solid connection for

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless connection intermittent on one machine

2005-06-14 Thread Catalin Trifu
Try moving it closer to the access point, if possible, and if it still fails from time to time; if it does there might be a driver or hardware problem Catalin Grant wrote: I have 3 Gentoo systems connected to my wireless network. 2 of them have Netgear PCMCIA wireless cards and the third

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Network adapetors?

2005-04-26 Thread Toby Cubitt
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 04:20:51PM +0100, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: Toby Cubitt wrote: I recently successfully set up my gentoo box as a wireless access point using a D-link DWL-G520, which is based on the Atheros chipset so is supported by the madwifi driver (in portage). It does 54Mbps, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Network adapetors?

2005-04-25 Thread Toby Cubitt
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 06:05:56PM +1000, Devraj Mukherjee wrote: I am looking to switch to wireless networking and am unsure of which cards are well supported under Linux? I am looking for PCI styled cards and preferably ones that can do 54Mbps. Any experiences, suggestions? I recently

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Network adapetors?

2005-04-25 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
Toby Cubitt wrote: On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 06:05:56PM +1000, Devraj Mukherjee wrote: I am looking to switch to wireless networking and am unsure of which cards are well supported under Linux? I am looking for PCI styled cards and preferably ones that can do 54Mbps. Any experiences,

[gentoo-user] Wireless Network adapetors?

2005-04-23 Thread Devraj Mukherjee
I am looking to switch to wireless networking and am unsure of which cards are well supported under Linux? I am looking for PCI styled cards and preferably ones that can do 54Mbps. Any experiences, suggestions? Thanks in advance. -- Devraj Mukherjee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eternity Technologies

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Network adapetors?

2005-04-23 Thread Stroller
On Apr 23, 2005, at 9:05 am, Devraj Mukherjee wrote: I am looking to switch to wireless networking and am unsure of which cards are well supported under Linux? I am looking for PCI styled cards and preferably ones that can do 54Mbps. Any experiences, suggestions? Prism54 cards work REALLY

[gentoo-user] wireless start-up world of pain

2005-04-21 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Thanks in advance. It seems like I'm writing too many messages here. I apologize. I hope someone can help. I'm in a world of pain struggling with this wireless lan start-up problem. The basic problem (and I'm guessing at this a bit) is that if the wireless NIC doesn't find the router at

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless start-up world of pain

2005-04-21 Thread Mark Knecht
Bill, That's an interesting idea. I don't use sudo for anything but this may well be a very good use in my case. Thanks! - Mark On 4/21/05, W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use sudo an a desktop icon to run the init script so a user can do it. I also found that gentoo's wireless setup

[gentoo-user] Wireless: Driver for BCM94306

2005-04-18 Thread revolt
Hello, I bought a new notebook compaq presario r3340us and they come with Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g wireless device, i have installed a gentoo 2005.0 amd64. the point is...the driver for windows (http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/drivers.php) cause a segfault e complete crash out

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: Driver for BCM94306

2005-04-18 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi Max, I have a Compaq laptop also.I've never set it up for wireless so I decided to give it a shot. I happen to run ck-sources at the moment. Interesting results: flash linux # ndiswrapper -l Installed ndis drivers: bcmwl5a driver present, hardware present flash linux # lsmod | grep ndis

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: Driver for BCM94306

2005-04-18 Thread revolt
Hi Mark, I've made a test with 64bit driver for windows and everything goes well...even when I run iwlist wlan0 scan, I can find my Access Point, but if i try to ping.I have a segfault... in my point of view, the problem are the version of ndiswrapper in portage. Any clue? Max Em Seg,

[gentoo-user] Wireless: dhcpcd starts too early

2005-04-17 Thread Ed Jabbour
At boot, when wlan0 starts up, I get a msg that dhcpcd is already running, so - no connection. I have to start it manually after rm'ing the pid file. I've run rc-update del on pcmcia, netmount. net.lo and hotplug. Anyone w/ a notion what's starting up dhcpcd before net.wlan0 gets called?

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless switches off when I run laptop on the battery

2005-04-08 Thread Richard Fish
William Kenworthy wrote: iwconfig eth2 power off # card is on Now _that_ is a usability issue! :- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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