[Preston] Help with Installing Wireless Software

[Chris Tompkins]

Thanks Mike.  I've finally got it working.  It was your suggestion that 
put me on the right track!  I downloaded "Windows Wireless Drivers" and 
away I went!

I've got that awful feeling that i've got to make my way to Preston and 
buy a round!!!

Thanks again,

Chris

mike wrote:
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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.
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> 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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