[ale] linksys G pcmcia question

[Jerald Sheets]

no.
 
Under Fedora, it gets added as a SystemV startup daemon, and just plain ol'
starts.  Part of the install routine made that change for me.  What distro
are you on?  I've found Linuxant's support to be impeccable, and their
people to be knowledgeable.
 
On my Fedora Core2 bases system, it just worked.
 
--jms


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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Armsby
John-G16665
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 11:20 AM
To: 'Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts'
Subject: RE: [ale] linksys G pcmcia question


Do you activate the connection manually via the localhost web page? 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jerald
Sheets
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 9:39 AM
To: 'Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts'
Subject: RE: [ale] linksys G pcmcia question


Any of the Broadcomm-style chipsets (54G) require some type of loader.  The
only two currently on the market are Linuxant's loader and NDISwrapper.
 
I *NEVER* got NDISwrapper running.  driverloader worked first time, and
continues to work every time.
 
It was well worth the paltry few bucks to by driverloader.
 
--jms

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Armsby
John-G16665
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 9:17 AM
To: 'ale at ale.org'
Subject: [ale] linksys G pcmcia question


All,
 
I bought a Linksys B (cheap) wireless router and a Linksys G pcmcia card.  I
was a bit leary of the G card regarding Linux compatibility but figured the
hardware must be supported by now.  NO I DID NOT DO MY HOMEWORK.... I Iknow
I should hve done a compatibility look up.... spent a number of hours trying
to get the card to work.  I employed two strategies.  BTW I am running
Mandrake 10.
 
1.  NDIS wrapper based upon an article at LinuxElectrons "Getting your
wireless NIC working with the NDIS wrapper device driver".  I faithfully
performed a ndiswrapper -i bcmw15.inf.  The inf files came from my windows
CD.  Those files matched the donloaded driver zip file which is a zipped
version of my CD.  Performing an NDIS -l showed the files.... modprobe
ndiswrapper did not show anything in the dmesg log..... iwconfig produced
"no wireless" messages....
 
2.  I went to Linuxant and loaded their 30 day free trial.  It works!  I
have to boot without the pcmcia card, insert it, go to a localhost http URL
with a unique port name and "refresh".  At that point it begins working.....
 
Can someone point me to a more elegant solution?  I am sure you guys have
already encounterd this type of question.  A redirect will suffice.....
 
Thanks,
 
John
 


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