[olug] Call for Wireless Card Demo under Linux

[Carl Lundstedt]

On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 10:57, Sam Tetherow wrote:
> That is odd, the only thing I ever seem to have a problem with when it 
> comes to wireless under linux is getting kismet to work.  I usually just 
> punt and drop in a knoppix CD when I want to scan for stuff, either that 
> or break out the ipaq.
> 
I'm totally Linuxless at my house since I moved my PC away from the
router.  I have two (2) wireless PCI cards and I can't get either of
them to work under SuSe 9.0 or Mandrake Com 10.  I had one of the cards
(the d-link 520+) working under Mandrake 9.2, but it would drop the
connection so frequently (requiring me to dump the module and reload it)
that I gave up on it. 

When I went back to load up the D-link 520+ drivers from sourceforge
they now require the newest version of the binary drivers from a windows
install.  No love there...

Wireless on my laptop is dead simple.  Wireless on my
desktop...problematic.

<snip>

> 
> n gotten around to testing 
> 2.6 yet (does nvidia have drivers out finally?)
> 

I had Mandrake 10 (kernel 2.6) installed on my workstation at the
office.  It has an NVIDIA Ti4200 in it.  The installation script went
out to Nvidia, couldn't find a binary so it built the module on the
fly.  I just had to have the kernel source in the right path (and for
the kernel that was running.)
So I'd say yes, but maybe I just got lucky.
> However I am willing to try and help out anyone who is having problems. 

I'm afraid that helping me with my wireless troubles would be like
teaching a pig to fly.  You waste your time and annoy the pig.  I'm just
waiting now.
-- 
Carl Lundstedt <clundst at unlserve.unl.edu>
University of Nebraska