[Gllug] Wireless and Linux

[Caroline Ford]

Hi

The router isn't the issue - it will be the adaptor. There may well be  
support for the adaptor - it will depends on what chipset it is using.  
Different manufacturers can use the same chipset and to make things  
more confusing - some devices can have different chipsets in different  
versions!

What happens when you use the adaptor- does it not find it?

If you type ifconfig into the terminal from Ubuntu what does it say?

Caroline

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On 26 Jul 2009, at 00:44, Johannes Lang <johannes.lang at btinternet.com>  
wrote:

> 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
>
> -- 
> Thanks
> Johannes
>
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