On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 18:35, Robert L Cochran wrote: > However, > > *Your wireless NIC must be using a chipset supported by Linuxant! Don't > bother installing it if your chipset is not supported. > > *you must read and follow the installation directions posted on the > Linuxant site.* This is very important, don't just try to rpm -ivh the > package. There are several steps you need to follow. > > *You must have the Microsoft Windows driver components ready for the > Linuxant driverloader to work with. > > *At the web-based login screen for the Linuxant product, you must login > as root. > > *You must have a license key from Linuxant to completely install the > product! Therefore your computer needs to be connected to the internet > if you wish to take advantage of their automated registration and key > generation facilities. > > *After installation of the driver loader, you may very well have to > change the order in which the boot time runlevel scripts execute. > S24pcmcia problably needs to be run before S10network. > > I'm probably going to dump my 30 day trial of the Driverloader when it > expires because Linuxant never responded to my support queries and the > product is not that great when I get down to it. For instance it won't > tell me the active SSID's in my area. It has some rough edges that > cause error messages. > > Bob Thanks for the informative comments. As an owner of a centrino laptop (fubar!), the first mention of driverloader piqued my interest. For now I'll stick with my linksys v3 card (but am seriously eyeing a cisco pcmcia wi-fi adapter).
