On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 15:33, Timothy Wagner wrote: > Ladies and Gentlemen! > > In the past I've had some issues with the internet. I'm no longer > having that problem! I had bought a D-Link DWL-520. I later learned > that I bought the "special" card with the flashable firmware. I wasn't > too sure why they still continued to call this firmware seeing that it > was lost every time the card loses power. So, due to extreme > frustration and lack of a decent driver I brought it back and bought a > Belkin 802.11g wi-fi PCI card (Model #:F5D7000). This is truly a > wonderful card! The setup was easier than I could have ever hoped! > After some initial googling I was pointed to LinuxAnt.com which I > found to be a really neat website with great software. They offer a > NDIS driver wrapper. It allows the user to utilize the windows driver > that the card was shipped with on their Linux OS. I then realized that > it was $20 to buy the license forever to use it so I ditched that and > found a great alternate solution. I found the program ndiswrapper off > of sourceforge (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/). This is the open > source alternative to LinuxAnt's software. It worked great. It was a > simple install that included a clear and simple README for installing. > Now, my internet is finally up and running great. I highly recommend > ndis wrapper to be used with wi-fi pci cards. It has support for many > different chipsets. > > I still have this darn sound issue. When I installed Fedora Core 2, it > had brought me through the setup screens right before I logged into > KDE. These were the setup screens for things like sound, time, etc. In > the soundcard configuration screen, I played the sound and everything > went great. I finished up the setup and logged into KDE. I tried > playing a CD and found there was no sound. Then, I played the test > sound using the soundcard config program and also got nothing. I > checked my volume controls, and I had unmuted everything and cranked > all volume levels up. My modprobe.conf file is as follows: > > alias eth0 3c59x > alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 > alias usb-controller uhci-hcd > alias wlan0 ndiswrapper It may need more than that Here's mine alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss --
