[Wylug-help] wireless lan assistance

[John Hodrien]

On Sat, 14 Jun 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:

> On Friday 13 June 2008 23:14:56 Scott Hodgson wrote:
>> Hi
>> I have had similar problems with network cards on my laptop.  In my
>> personal opinion - far be it from being expert - I believe the problems
>> with a laptop network card may actually be the PCMCIA drivers.  My
>> reasoning for this being I have bought cards for the PCI bus on a
>> desktop and the same card/chipset for PCMCIA and have had them run
>> easily on PCI but encountered numerous problems on PCMCIA.  I know this
>> doesn't directly help you , but I may be put correct on this subject or
>> maybe someone can help us both.
>>
> My experience seconds this.  My old laptop has a Netgear PCMCIA NIC.
> Mandriva handles it well.  Fedora Live-CD handled it.  Fedora installed
> can't.  I pursued a bug report, but that didn't solve it.  No-one seemed to
> know why it was a problem.  There does seem to be an element of black art
> here.

I can't say I can agree (just to suggest this isn't quite so clear cut).
Assuming you have a supported card (we use a near identical dlink to the OP at
uni) I've not had problems getting it working with a wide variety of laptops,
with quite a history of different linux distros.  I've yet to have a card that
fails to work for no identifiable reason.  It's often firmware related.

jh

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