[Gllug] Wireless and Linux

[Johannes Lang]

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>    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 (lesleyb at herlug.org.uk)
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> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:44:52 -0700
> From: Johannes Lang <johannes.lang at btinternet.com>
> Subject: [Gllug] Wireless and Linux
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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
>
>   

Hi all

First of all, thanks for all your help.

Using the Internet on Linux is a catch-22 situation for me. At the 
moment, I want to install openSuse, which I don't have yet, but I think 
that SLED (which I do have) is more or less equivalent. I hope that the 
32bit version does boot up from the live DVD this time - I am not 
holding my breath though :-) . In any case, I have to use Windows, 
because I need to print the web page of the help forum from the links 
sent to me.

The WG111T USB network adapter uses an Atheros chipset I think. All the 
web pages I have visited unfortunately tell you different things. One 
says "no drivers exist" and others say "it depends how you configure 
your system". Who would you believe.

Please be patient with me, as I am a newbie at Linux. People say as a 
newbie, you should use Ubuntu, but I prefer openSuse / SLED. Besides, 
these disros use KDE and Konqueror rather than Gnome and Nautilus as the 
file manager (I digress though).

-- 
Thanks
Johannes




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