[Preston] Help with Installing Wireless Software

[mike]

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I will make a further suggestion if you use the same ip address as the
ethernet card then it wont work you may need to disable your ethernet
card by commenting out all the config thats if you use a static
address. the other thing is to make sure you have all modules
installed for wireless from the distribution site.






Chris Tompkins wrote:
> Firstly, big thanks for the comments so far.
>
> Mike made a sensible suggestion, which was to buy a dongle that
> works out of the box.  I followed up his lead and well, that is the
>  one I've got.  Allegedly it "works out of the box" with my current
>  system.  So that has suggested some suitable "FM"s to read. (I'm
> assuming that it isn't just ignorance on my part, because the
> ethernet hardwired connection works perfectly.)
>
> Georgina's reply forced me to do a bit of thinking in order to make
>  a sensible statement of where I'm at.  One reason for my confusion
>  is the information and files on the CD is a load of rubbish.  I
> went to the chip manufacturers website (http://www.ralinktech.com),
>  navigated to the  Linux Support page and discovered that I was
> downloading the driver. On opening the .tar.bz I found files that
> related to the original build instructions.
>
> And of course, there is the third option: to use a Windows driver.
> (Thanks for that Mark!)
>
> Thanks again,
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> Chris
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