On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 11:20 -0400, Scott wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 09:40:19AM -0500, Brian E Boothe wrote:
> > out,,, just use Windows for your wireless Stuff,and have it Done in
> 5 min then u can SSH or Telnet to your linux box makes your life soo
> less stress free, ("believe me")
> >
>
> Actually, I have to respectfully disagree. I've found that of course,
> it depends upon the wireless card--for example, a Gateway laptop I
> have,
> with an Intel 2100 requires an additional firmware program with some
> distros (such as ArchLinux) and is autodetected by several others,
> especially those designed for the Linux beginner. Actually, Linux did
> a
> better job than Windows with that card. :)
>
I agree with Scott. (Sorry Brian)
I spent the afternoon yesterday playing with a Broadcom Corporation Dell
Wireless 1390 WLAN mini-pci card, that tons of people on the net will
tell you is impossible to get working. (A handful of others will tell
you it's possible, and I'm now one of them.)
It is worth it to get the wireless working under linux.
It would have been a lot faster to set up too if I'd downloaded the
right driver from the get go. I'd downloaded the right one and the
wrong one at the same time, and used the wrong one by accident. That's
the only reason I fought with it.
In the end, I have Mandrake 2007.1 (based on your Redhat) doing WPA
encryption on my built-in wireless card, using ndiswrapper, connecting
to a Linksys router with hidden SSID, and MAC Address filtering turned
on. Reputedly, one of the most difficult combinations there are.
>From start to finish, if I'd used the right driver from the get go, it
would have been probably 2 - 3 more steps than in Windows. And I never
had to wade through code, not even once.
I have my office in the basement, and often sit in my nice sunny living
room and connect remotely to my machines downstairs, as well as to my
co-located server that lives elsewhere in the city. I didn't want cat5
cabling run all over my main floor, so I set about to the task of
setting up wireless.
This Compaq V6110 laptop is reputed to be "non-linux friendly" in some
of the forums, but I have sound, video, and both wired and wireless
network cards working. I haven't tested the modem, as I have no use for
it.
My toshiba Qosmio G20 was even easier (with the exception of the TV
tuner card, I still don't have that working), but pretty much the same
procedure, with its Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG MiniPCI
Adapter
ndiswrapper and the windows diver, wpa supplicant. Those are the apps
behind this, but if your distro has a "network configuration" utility in
its gui, you may not even have to get your hand dirtier than downloading
and unzipping the manufacturer's windows driver.
I guess what I'm saying is that it's worth trying, and just because a
couple of people say it's not possible, or too hard, doesn't mean you
can't do it. Once I found "the way", it was almost as easy as
configuring it under windows. It may take you a little research
though.
start by running lspci as root, and identify the wireless card. That
will tell you what to "google" for results. Also post back here, some
of us may have used that card.
>
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