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Ok, im a little upset with linux and im sure it feels the same towards me. Im going on my third wireless card in a few weeks. I only have one question.... ARE THERE ANY WIRELESS CARDS THAT JUST WORK??????? Everytime i try a new card i go through sooo much hassle. Recompiling after recompiling after recompliling, i cant enter a wep, i cant change it to shared mode, i get a weak signal, and so on and so on. I just want a card that works. Ive tried a netgear MA401 and a Proxim orinoco gold. The netgear worked right out of the box, except no wep. The orinoco wasnt compatible, so i spent forever and a half getting it to work only to find out that i barely get a signal with it. Can someone please give me a suggestion, of a good card that acctually works????? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!
wot do i download i cant find any link 2 download somefin wot am i looking for, the only thing i can find r the text files on the site but that cant be it can it???????
My Airway 802.11b adapter just worked with Mandrake 9.1 and 9.2. Put the card in, went to configure it and Drake promted me to put the MDK CD in. It installed the drivers and took me to the configuration screen. Two minutes later I was online.
Get a Prism3 card. It will "just work" and will give you pretty decent range. Use the latest orinoco_cs driver. You can get a ZyXEL B-100 with good sensitivity and 80mw tx, for example, for around $40. There's a list of chipsets here.
What AP are you using? If the ORiNOCO card functioned, but poorly, you may have an issue at the other end of the chain.
The patch for the kernel (or text file as you call it) + a firmware file.
For the driver to work, you need to use the latest kernel from kernel.org. (2.4.23 I believe) and apply the prism54 patch.
I guess if you have not configured and compiled your own kernel before, the whole thing might seem a little tricky. In fact, if you have not done it before, I suggest you practice a bit first, perhaps configuring and recompiling a bit first. There are plenty of howto's knocking about on this site, and there's of course the tldp.org one which is very comprehensive. If bought your slack in a box, there wil also be something about it in the manual.
The MA401 that just worked, but with no WEP, was a prism2 card, probably the best for the job.
There's a difference in how you might be creating WEP keys on the router and how you assign them to a card using iwconfig.
If you created a WEP key using passphrasing on the router... that's the problem. Just assign a hex key by hand on both sides and you have no worries.
You actually bought the best card on the market, and from the only guys that have yet to NOT change the chipset without also changing the model name. Unlike the 3 different chipsets that masquerade as the WMP11.
after 2 weeks and several cards for my laptop and even pci cards for my desktop, I have them all working wirelessly. I simply installed windowsxp.
I will try linux again next year. Too much work. goodbye
Originally posted by baimo after 2 weeks and several cards for my laptop and even pci cards for my desktop, I have them all working wirelessly. I simply installed windowsxp.
I will try linux again next year. Too much work. goodbye
Sorry you had so many problems. I had the opposite experience : my Wireless card works fine on Linux but I still can't get it working on XP, despite installing the drivers from CD.
Hi! I have bought a Netgear WG511 wlan card for my Gericom notebook. I am running Linux Mandrake 9.1. Could anyone post a step-by-step guidance for installing and configuring it (also with WEP-keys)?
thx in advance
Flex
I got a wpc54g (802.11g, ery54mb/s) and it works with a little hassel with xp, however every where I look, everything says there is no way to get it to work with linux.
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