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


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