It was a legitimate response....... and good advice.
What is good advice or not is of course subjective. IMHO you added *nothing* to the user's experience or benefit, and probably made the rest of us look bad in the process. And top-posted just to make others' lives a little more difficult. Sheesh.
OK, here is better advice.... Get and orinoco card. My experience has been that orinoco cards work with FC painlessly. The original and still the best........
Incomplete advice and certainly incorrect. The old Lucent/Agere Orinoco cards (the ones with the square antenna) work well and are natively supported since RHL-8.0 if I recall correctly. HOWEVER, newer Orinoco cards are *not* natively supported since they changed the internal chipset of the cards. STFW for more detail, but likely if the original poster had gone out directly to buy the first Orinoco card he found your advice would have gotten him screwed.
As to the original problem...
> > On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Watcher wrote:
> > > Having a bit of a problem getting my wireless LAN card on my laptop to work. It is a Microsoft (sorry) MN720. Any suggestions or do I need to look at getting another card? This one was given to me so I won't be out anything.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > C-man
C-man, several people on this list have reported success in getting the MS MN-720 adapter to work. Please search the archives and Google in order to find the right instructions. As an example, searching for "Microsoft MN-720 wireless adapter 802.11b Linux Red Hat Fedora Core" on Google got me this from the second link on the very first page of results:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/3/2003/11/1/110130
While this is surely not the only way, and may or may not be the best way from your point of view, it is at least one option. And it's also true that paying $15 or $20 (I forget) to Linuxant for their driver is cheaper than getting another card. Another project that may help you (and has zero cost) is:
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net
Cheers,
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simpaticus.com
