On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 11:59:55AM -0600, stormi wrote:
> 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")
> > >
> > 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.
BTDTGTTS (Been there, done that, got the tshirt.) First, I downloaded
the firmware and driver for the 2200 instead of the 2100, a typo that I
missed--one is iwi and I forget the other, the wrong one. Then, when I
finally figured that part out (Hrrm, why isn't it seeing the card?) I
cursed for another 45 minutes before realizing that I'd transposed the
first two letters of the password to the network. :)
>
> 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.
Yup, very simple, the command is usually a 1 liner if they don't have a
GUI to do it, which Mandrake has, I believe.
--
Scott
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gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
Buffy: What do you want?
Spike: I told you. I want to stop Angel. I want to save the world.
Buffy: Okay, you do remember that you're a vampire, right?
Spike: We like to talk big... vampires do. I'm going to destroy the
world.
That's just tough-guy talk. Strutting around with your friends over a
pint of
blood. The truth is, I _like_ this world. You've got...dog racing,
Manchester
United. And you've got people. Billions of people walking around like
Happy
Meals with legs. It's all right here. But then someone comes along
with a vision.
With a real... passion for destruction. Angel could pull it off.
Good-bye, Picadilly.
Farewell, Leicester-bloody-Square.
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