On Friday 17 June 2005 05:43 pm, Chopin Cusachs wrote: > ?Installed Win98SE and Mephis with no serious problems.
Sounds great. The Belkin wireless card should work with Mepis. They have a nifty GUI network configuration tool that brings up network interfaces if it does not happen automagically. Go back, plug it in and wait a while. DHCP, is slow and not always reliable, especially in a crowded cafe. KDE also has several wifi tools that show signal strength, network name and other useful stuff. Wireless networks are a pain in the neck, but useful enough to be worth the effort. > A clone shop suggested I might > have better luck with a Motorola PCMIA card, but now I > have only managed to mangle Windows. ? The only way to be sure a card works is to plug it in and see it. You can watch it register in /var/log/messages or not and that's good indication. The ultimate proof, of course, is browsing with it. A good shop will have a default wireless access point to prove your card works in your computer. I bring my laptop with me and won't buy a card that won't work. > So, over the > weekend I will reformat the C partition and reinstall Win98SE. > Sorry to hear it exploded on you. >But I am curious if anyone else around has > been able to get a PCMIA WiFi card to work under Win98SE. If there's no "must have" networked application, don't bother networking windows. You can get files to and from your windows partition by mounting under Mepis and you are much better off using Mepis for surfing, email and other network activity. Your Windows partition will last longer and work better this way and you will have a much better time on the web.
