Carl Lowenstein wrote:
On 12/16/06, Neil Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> In case you forgot, there is an Linux InstallFest here at the National
> City Adult Center today. Three people are here to help you, nobody
> has yet showed up to be helped.
Sorry I can't be there today. Maybe we should discuss cutting back on
the number of Installfests we have in the new year, or come up with a
strategy to reinvigorate them.
By about 10:30 or 11:00 this was a very vigorous InstallFest. Max
about 10 people present for installation and problem solving. By 3:00
it had tapered off to 4 or 5 and we had to start easing them out.
Quite a few problems actually got solved.
carl and I were able solve a particularly tough problem involving Puppy
Linux and an unsupported wireless ethernet PCMCIA card (Fry's special
Aironet). We used ndiswrapper to use a M$ Windows ndis driver. Some of
the problems in getting this to work were:
The M$ Windows driver provided on the CDROM for the PCMCIA card did not
work. Searching the ndiswrapper site on Sourceforge showed that 3com
provided a driver. Unfortunately, the bundled software was in a
self-extracting windows executable. I solved that problem by downloading
the file and extracting the files by running it with WINE on my laptop.
The files were transferred using a USB flash drive (thanks Jim Sack!).
For some reason the ndiswrapper kernel module wouldn't load on bootup.
After extensive reading of the Puppy Linux startup scripts, it turns out
that the script that loads network modules is hard coded to load only
the first two modules listed in the configuration file. Guess where the
ndiswrapper module was listed? So, moving the module from spot three to
spot one fixed the problem.
This laptop setup was actually a continuation of an install and setup
that had started at "That Technical Bookstore" about two weeks earlier.
I think it's finally finished but it needs testing at the guy's house to
ensure it works with the assigned ESSID and WEP key.
Maybe I should create a wiki page titled "KPLUG Success Stories".
Gus
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