On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 13:34 -0500, Mike Chalmers wrote: > On 12/31/06, Dave Sampson <samper.d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > My recomendation, that may draw flames would be to forget about FEDORA's > > guis for now... > > > > Get it working from the command line. even if you only test it using PING. > > > > I find that FEDORA gui's work fine when the hardware is recognized on > > bootup. but special software I find battling the GUI's slow me down > > until I understand what the problem is. sometimes you need an updated > > driver, or try a different backend. then GUI is a frontend that works > > with different backends. > > > > Myself I have to run a Shell script manualy to get my ACX100 chipset to > > work... it took me a month or so of tinkering, but I got the card to > > work. All I needed was the NDISWRAPER and it worked like a charm. kinda > > cheating in the eyes of open source, but what works eh?.... then my guis > > recognized it flawlessly. > > > > Again, I bid you fun and luck. > > > > Timothy Murphy wrote: > > > Dave Sampson wrote: > > > > > > > > >> Try out this tutorial: > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch13_:_Linux_Wireless_Networking > > > > > >> The wireless battle is a fun one... good luck > > >> > > > > > > Linux WiFi is not fun. > > > Setting up and maintaining a WiFi LAN > > > is a very painful experience. > > > > > > The tutorial above seems rather good, > > > though it doesn't mention NetworkManager. > > > I've been trying this for a couple of weeks, > > > and have very mixed feelings about it. > > > When it works it is fine; > > > when it stops working it is very hard to recover, > > > in my experience. > > > Even re-booting often will not do the trick, > > > at least in my setup. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > I am going to try Ndis wrapper. Does anyone know anything about this? > Mike, don't know if you saw this. Is not fedora (unfortunately :) ) but I hope it helps. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1738714 Calin ================================================= I told my kids, "Someday, you'll have kids of your own." One of them said, "So will you." -- Rodney Dangerfield
