[Preston] Help with Installing Wireless Software

[mike]

A pint of Abbott ale will go down quite nicely
thanks Chriss
mike



Chris Tompkins wrote:
> 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,
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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