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Today's Topics:
1. Wireless and Linux (Johannes Lang)
2. Re: Wireless and Linux (Caroline Ford)
3. Re: Wireless and Linux (John Hearns)
4. Re: Wireless and Linux (John G Walker)
5. Re: Wireless and Linux (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:lesleyb@herlug.org.uk">lesleyb@herlug.org.uk</a>)
6. Re: LIVES (Andrew Black)
7. Re: LIVES (Chris Bell)
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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:44:52 -0700
From: Johannes Lang <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:johannes.lang@btinternet.com"><johannes.lang@btinternet.com></a>
Subject: [Gllug] Wireless and Linux
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gllug@gllug.org.uk">gllug@gllug.org.uk</a>
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Hello
If I had a posting about me not being able to sign in, please ignore
this, as I hope that I have access to the mailing list now. At least,
when I attempted to sign in, the email bounced back and said that I have
already been signed in. Fingers crossed.
Anyway, here is my problem:
I was at the point a while ago, where I wanted to start using Linux, but
as I have a problem using it wirelessly, unfortunately had to return to
Windows XP. It must just be me, because my colleague has managed to get
it working. This is what I have:
A Netgear DG834GT router
A Netgear network adapter (WG111T).
Some people say that Netgear does not have Linux drivers and others say
that you can use any router with any Linux. It just depends how you set
your system up. I obviously have set it up wrongly because it doesn't
work on any flavor, not even Ubuntu. In the end I would love to use
openSuse, because it has a lot of treasures that come out of the box.
Please help
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Hello<br>
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To answer Caroline Ford's question to: <br>
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<font color="#ff0000">"What happens when you use the adapter- does it
not find it?, "</font> the answer is that it does not seem to. There is
no blue flashing light. Taking Mandriva as an example, I had the
wireless tools and ndiswrapper in installed. I located and installed
athwdml.inf and netwg.inf. Mandriva refused to find them, which the
dialog box "no drivers found for this device" or something like that.
This was the same with PCLinuxOS . I think I will take the good and
helpful advice from John Hearns and go out and buy a LinuxFriendly
network adapter. The only reason why I haven't done this for all this
time, is that I didn't want to go out and buy one only to find that it
doesn't work. PCWorld doesn't do Linux (I wonder why) so I am sure
Amazon may have one or two.<br>
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Johannes<br>
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ps: I know that all of you are of a very advanced level, and having me
ask such boneheaded questions causes clutter. Sorry <span
class="moz-smiley-s2"><span> :-( </span></span><br>
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