Re: [expert] Why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to work in linux????

2002-11-18 Thread jarmo
On Monday 18 November 2002 05:03, Praedor Tempus wrote: I have no problems with getting wlan cards working on my laptop (orinoco, zoomair, or netgear). I was never able to get them working properly on my desktop with a pci-to-pcmcia adaptor. The problem appeared to be related to IRQs. What

Re: [expert] Why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to work in linux????

2002-11-18 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dilluns 18 Novembre 2002 08:00, en jarmo va escriure: That's the point...I get no messages,because MDK does stops installation right at the beginning at the point determining pcmcia...No matter how long waiting,it hungs there..(waited 7 hours

Re: [expert] Why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to work in linux????

2002-11-18 Thread jarmo
On Monday 18 November 2002 18:28, Joan Tur wrote: If your bios has an option called Bios PnP try setting it to OFF... if it hasn't that option just forget this message ;) Thanks But unfortunately there's not that option-( Jarmo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to work in linux????

2002-11-18 Thread Marco Romeny
I've had exactly the same problem. (just for the record, so the problemcount can increment) Also, when I finally got it to work (by installing w/o the pcmcia card - yup, I had to do a cd-install), my orinoco silver card hangs the kernel without emitting any recoveable logmessages upon first use

Re: [expert] Why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to work in linux????

2002-11-18 Thread Mike Graham
I am about to try again - upon purchasing another pci-to-pcmcia adaptor. If that fails, I will try USB which I know works (if you get the correct wlan usb device, that is). Ok that brings up a very good point, which usb devices work with Mandrake 9.0? I am about to buy another one to try

Re: [expert] Why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to work in linux????

2002-11-18 Thread Praedor Tempus
A linksys WUSB v2.5 will, perhaps also a v2.0. I goofed my first time and bought a WUSB - it had been a while since it came out so I thought it likely to be a v2.x though there was no indication whatsoever on the box. I lost the receipt and was unable to take it back. a v1.5 will not work.

Re: [expert] Why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to work in linux????

2002-11-17 Thread jarmo
On Sunday 17 November 2002 17:47, Michael Holt wrote: Yesterday, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mused: I'm glad to hear that someone was able to get it to work with the default ML install. I wasn't so lucky. I have finally managed to get it to work after 3 fresh installs of ML 9 plus I had to d/l and

Re: [expert] Why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to work in linux????

2002-11-17 Thread engage
On Sunday 17 November 2002 08:47 am, you wrote: Yesterday, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mused: With this kind of trouble, I can see why Linux hasn't made it into the mainstream (as far as the desktop market goes). People always say this when they have a problem. First, you need to I've had more than

Re: [expert] Why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to work in linux????

2002-11-17 Thread jarmo
On Sunday 17 November 2002 19:30, Michael Holt wrote: WHAT??? With that fact-filled email, I just don't know where to start! Seriously though, you haven't listed anything about what kind of laptop Man Don't blow your head off... If you'd read better you'd figure that this is not a laptop.. Pse

Re: [expert] Why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to work in linux????

2002-11-17 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Sunday 17 November 2002 04:22 pm, jarmo wrote: [...] Don't blow your head off... If you'd read better you'd figure that this is not a laptop.. Pse read again... As said with my orinoco silver card and wavelan pci adapter etc... I can get it working...but MDK's installation does

Re: [expert] Why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to work in linux????

2002-11-16 Thread engage
I'm glad to hear that someone was able to get it to work with the default ML install. I wasn't so lucky. I have finally managed to get it to work after 3 fresh installs of ML 9 plus I had to d/l and install the orinoco drivers since I wasn't able to get the orinoco drivers that came with ML 9

Re: [expert] Why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to work in linux????

2002-11-12 Thread Randy Kramer
On Sunday 10 November 2002 07:25 pm, Jim Tarvid wrote: I must admit to cheating a bit, I bought an Orinoco for this purpose. Using MCC, I changed the SSID and set the device to channel 6 and connected to my AP instantly. If I had read enough, I am sure I would have screwed it up. Which is

Re: [expert] Why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to work in linux????

2002-11-10 Thread Jim Tarvid
I must admit to cheating a bit, I bought an Orinoco for this purpose. Using MCC, I changed the SSID and set the device to channel 6 and connected to my AP instantly. If I had read enough, I am sure I would have screwed it up. Which is why we need a repository of things that work as well as a

Re: [expert] Why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to work in linux????

2002-11-10 Thread Gary
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 23:31:02 -0700, you wrote: So, I have to ask: why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to work under linux? This works for a Dlink 11meg card and I used I think linux-wlan-1.14. This was a little while back and I now have a 22meg Dlink which has a different chipset and

Re: [expert] Why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to work in linux????

2002-11-09 Thread HoytDuff
On Saturday 09 November 2002 06:31 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to work under linux? Same reason as other stuff: inadequate device driver support. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com A train stops at a train

[expert] Why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to work in linux????

2002-11-08 Thread engage
I've tried linux-wlan-ng-pre4/5/6 and I still can't get my wireless card to work. It's a Netgear MA401. I followed the directions in the README file and added alias wlan0 prism2_cs to /etc/modules.conf but I can't get the beast to work! The default install did not associate the card with the AP