On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 18:25, Frank Griffin wrote: > Adam, thanks for the reply. I'd actually been through this with 8.1, > which didn't seem to have any wireless support at all. I was trying to > play dumb user here (not too much of a stretch) to test the install.
Ah, in that case I agree with you entirely; wireless support needs considerable tightening up to be user-friendly :). The couple of days I spent finding all this stuff out weren't the most exciting of my life, hehe. > The key points are: > (1) The LINKSYS card ought to be in the PCMCIA database > (2) The drakconf network driver list does *not* include orinoco_cs, > just orinoco_plx > (3) The other minor usability issues (can't read the modprobe error > message, no indication that a request to probe for a LAN card wasn't > successful, wizard crashes, etc.) Yup, all good points. -- adamw
