On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 14:15, TroyGeek wrote: > There's always a debate as to whether to buy or build (get it working on > your own) when it comes to software. As i've already spent over 10 hours > just trying to get a wireless card to work with no avail, there comes a > time when you have to decide whether you want to spend many more hours > trying to get this to work or to buy. Not everyone has ample time to sit > and try to get device drivers working, but yes I always try to search > the web and mailing lists when I have trouble. However, when all the > options found on the Internet for getting this to work are exhaughted, > paying a little money to fix the problem and saving potentially hours of > more work which I don't have seems like a viable option. Giving up on > using Linux because I haven't been able to get a wireless card working > yet wasn't the route I wanted to go in. > If your laptop has one of the wireless adapters that has no linux drivers you AFAIK have 2 options to get it working. driverloader at Linuxant.com (about $20) or ndiswrapper from ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net (free) HTH Jeff
