[Gllug] Gllug Digest, Vol 73, Issue 74

[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)
>    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 <johannes.lang at btinternet.com>
> Subject: [Gllug] Wireless and Linux
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> Hello
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> 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.
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> 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
>
>   

Hello

To answer Caroline Ford's question  to:

"What happens when you use the adapter- does it not find it?, " 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.

Johannes

ps: I know that all of you are of a very advanced level, and having me 
ask such boneheaded questions causes clutter. Sorry :-(


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