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Old 07-12-2005, 06:46 AM   #1
cochoa
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usb wifi in FC4


Hi there, I have a Netgear WG311 USB Wifi card working on FC4 with the ndiswrapper 1.2 driver. It works well until I load the network (sending video trhu GnomeMeeting for example), then the driver get puzzled and I have to reboot my pc if I want to use the usb wifi again (ifup and ifdown just fail).
I have read that this problem could be related to the ndiswrapper driver, so I would like to know if any of you has successfully tried a usb wifi adaptor with a driver different from ndiswrapper, and heavily loading the network. In that case I will appreciate you tell me the brand of the usb wifi adaptor, and the driver used.

Thx!
Claudio
 
Old 07-12-2005, 07:23 AM   #2
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Not had experience with the USB version, but I rebuilt my main desktop machine last night which included setting up the PCI version of the WG311 and followed the instructions from here http://www.houseofcraig.net/acx100_howto.php . I had no luck with the ndiswrapper, and quite a people have reported similar, so you might want to try the acx100 drivers
 
Old 07-12-2005, 08:14 AM   #3
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Ok thanks for the tip, I will try it.
 
Old 07-12-2005, 08:26 AM   #4
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Hope it helps! That howto also explains exactly what chipset the adapter will be using - useful for finding a solution that will work if the acx100 drivers dont't
 
  


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