I was able to get the wifi working. The laptop came with a 54g chip onboard, but I bought an SMC card that I had found online cheap and did a little research on. When I got the SMC card, I downloaded the source (actually, the really interesting stuff was already compiled, the only source that came with it was just enough to get it working on different kernel versions). The module installed fine, with the expception of warnings that it wasn't GPL-friendly. But I had a really hard time getting the card working with WEP enabled. Without WEP, it worked fine. But with WEP, it took forever for it to associate with an AP. Setting the ESSID last didn't seem to help, despited the fact that it's supposed to "commit" everything on many cards. I had done some playing around and despite the fact that I had set the ESSID, the ESSID value would appear blank when I'd do a "iwconfig eth0". After about 2 minutes, the ESSID value would be populated, the card would associate with the AP and I could go about the business of getting a DHCP address. I never did figure out exactly what was n't going wrong, but I suspected that the ESSID wasn't being set by iwconfig and the card learned it when it recieved a beacon from the AP.
Out of frustration, I downloaded driverloader from linuxant.com, which uses allows one to use a driver written for a MS OS and load it in Linux. I haven't had a chance to use it in 802.11g mode yet (I only have b equipment at home), but in 802.11b mode it works rather nicely. Roy Danyelle Kelso said: > > > Roy I know your pain oh to well... i still have to get my wifi working > and probably the dvd/cd burner. Check out the coupons and bargains on > MSN Offers! > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
