[Nottingham] Mandrake wireless networking

[Iain Lennon]

The Binatone card I found no drivers for when I was last hunting for another
card. I'm using ZoomAir (prism 2 based) cards and the wlan-ng drivers on 2
PCs, with a belkin USB wirless device on a third. I've had multiple problems
configuring the PCMCIA ports, but not the cards themselves: most of the
drivers and configurations are quite stable. Its the variations in PCs which
seem to cause the problem. My laptop is currently restricted to WinXP until
the IntelPro driver for the Centrino supports WEP properly, but it is
developing fast. I've no clue about the new 54mbs cards.

Mandrake only configured the Belkin device itself. All the prism devices
needed a lot of hand configuration as Mandrake defaulted to load the orinoco
drivers. Thankfully the prism scripts are very complete

Iain Lennon

-----Original Message-----
From: nottingham-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:nottingham-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Bob Winter
Sent: 01 April 2004 00:17
To: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Mandrake wireless networking


I have no experience of those particular cards but am replying on a Tosh Sat
Pro 4600 running Mdk 9.2 (abortion) using the wireless card which was
automatically recognised as eth1

Bob

On Tuesday 30 Mar 2004 7:23 pm, James Gibbon wrote:
> The imminent arrival of broadband to these parts, about more which in
> another mail probably, is enticing me to consider dipping a toe into the
> inviting waters of wireless networking.
>
> I'd be particularly interested in hearing how easy or otherwise it is to
> set up - whether it's necessary to download drivers and/or recompile the
> kernel perhaps - particularly under Mandrake 9.2.
>
> I need to connect two machines at present, a laptop and a desktop
> machine.  I'm considering a Sitecom USB wireless network adaptor for the
> desktop (since the ethernet card will be tied to the ADSL connection),
> and a Binatone wireless PCMCIA card for the laptop - but I don't know if
> these will work out of the box.  All comments, or other recommendations
> are welcome.
>
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
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