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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [<a  rel="nofollow" href="mailto:ale-bounces";>mailto:ale-bounces</a> 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 [<a  rel="nofollow" href="mailto:ale-bounces";>mailto:ale-bounces</a> 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 [<a  rel="nofollow" href="mailto:ale-bounces";>mailto:ale-bounces</a> 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 &quot;Getting your
wireless NIC working with the NDIS wrapper device driver&quot;.  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
&quot;no wireless&quot; 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 &quot;refresh&quot;.  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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