[Sussex] Re: Sussex Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

Thu Mar 8 22:44:37 UTC 2007

Thanks guys for your warm reception. I hope to enjoy
more of this. I want to know how many software
developers are in the group because i am thinking of
developing tools for modelling in mining. All tools i
use for my job are all windows tools and i wish to
change that in future. I hate windows but don't have
any choice rather to use during working hours.

Cheers
Nick
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>    1. Installing wireless cards (nick gardner)
>    2. Re: Installing wireless cards (Steve Dobson)
>    3. Re: Mines in Sussex (was: Installing wireless
> cards) (Al Girling)
>    4. Re: Installing wireless cards (Desmond
> Armstrong)
>    5. Re: Mines in Sussex (was: Installing wireless
> cards)
>       (Gareth Ablett)
>    6. Re: Installing wireless cards (Steve Dobbo
> Dobson)
>    7. Re: Installing wireless cards (Nico
> Kadel-Garcia)
>    8. Re: Mines in Sussex (was: Installing wireless
> cards)
>       (John Crowhurst)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 05:59:10 -0800 (PST)
> From: nick gardner <gardner82gh at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Sussex] Installing wireless cards
> To: sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk
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> Hello everyone, My name is Nick and a new member of
> this group. I am a Mining Engineer and also in
> computers. I have been using linux for abt 6years
> now
> and i have seen development of linux from time to
> time. With regards to install wireless cards you can
> install your windows drivers for it to work on linux
> using ndiswrapper. Here is a link for you to know
> much
> abt ndiswrapper:
>
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Installation.
> I hope you find his useful. Wireless adapters from
> onrinco and america robotics, prism chipset are
> quite
> compactible with linux.Great to be part of this
> group.
> 
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 15:03:45 +0000
> From: Steve Dobson <steve at dobson.org>
> Subject: Re: [Sussex] Installing wireless cards
> To: LUG email list for the Sussex Counties
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> 
> Hi Nick
> 
> Welcome to the group.
> 
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 05:59:10AM -0800, nick
> gardner wrote:
> > Hello everyone, My name is Nick and a new member
> of
> > this group. I am a Mining Engineer and also in
> > computers. I have been using linux for abt 6years
> now
> > and i have seen development of linux from time to
> > time.
> 
> I didn't know we had any mines in Sussex :-)  or are
> you a non-local
> member?  Not a problem - all welcome here.
> 
> >       With regards to install wireless cards you
> can
> > install your windows drivers for it to work on
> linux
> > using ndiswrapper. Here is a link for you to know
> much
> > abt ndiswrapper:
> >
>
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Installation.
> > I hope you find his useful. Wireless adapters from
> > onrinco and america robotics, prism chipset are
> quite
> > compactible with linux.Great to be part of this
> group.
> 
> Personally I am not in favour of this ndiswrapper
> approach.  I think if you
> like and wish to prompt Linux you should actively
> support companies that
> are doing the right thing.  If a company only
> releases a Windows driver and
> not details of the hardware (so the kernel team can
> develop a driver for
> Linux/*BSD/...) then, as far as I am concerned, they
> really don't want my
> money!
> 
> I've some experience with Prism.  My firewall has a
> Prism II chip in the
> WiFi card so it can act as a AP.  As you say, Nick,
> works great.
> 
> I would also add Atmel to that list.  I got an Atmel
> WiFi card many moons 
> ago, just before I moved from 2.4.x -> 2.6.y (where
> y was a single digit).
> Under 2.4 the driver had been written and released
> under the GPL by Atmel.
> Under 2.6 it was being re-written by a kernel
> developer.
> 
> Unfortunately the new driver didn't work when I
> upgraded to 2.6, so I looked
> in the source, found the developer's e-mail address
> and contacted him.  He
> sent me a more up to date version which worked just
> fine (the exchange was
> that I tested it - which I did).  Now that is what I
> call service.
> 
> Try getting that kind of support from a ndiswrapper
> wrapped driver.  I can
> almost here the laughter from Redmond as I type.
> 
> Steve
> -- 
>                               Steve "Dobbo" Dobson
>                                 steve at dobson.org
>
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> <knghtbrd> Solver_: add users who should be messing
> with sound to group
>            audio..  Make sure the devices are all
> group audio (ls -l
>            /dev/dsp will give you the fastest
> indication if it's probably
> 	   set right) and build a kernel with sound support
> for your card
> <knghtbrd> OR optionally install alsa source and
> build modules for that
>            with make-kpkg
> <knghtbrd> OR (not recommended) get and install evil
> OSS/Linux evil
>            non-free evil binary only evil
> drivers---but those are evil.
> 	   And did I mention that it's not recommended?
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 15:34:49 +0000
> From: Al Girling <al at gcguk.demon.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Sussex] Mines in Sussex (was:
> Installing wireless cards)
> To: sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Message-ID: <20070308153449.GA4225 at herodotus>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> 
> Steven Dobson wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 05:59:10AM -0800, nick
> gardner wrote:
> > > Hello everyone, My name is Nick and a new member
> of
> > > this group. I am a Mining Engineer and also in
> 
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