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Re: [tlug] Debian supported wireless PC Card



Thanks Tobias and Stuart,

After working through your comments and googling around, I conclude that wireless support is not so easy in Linux. Certainly my experience with my Thinkpad and its builtin Intel chips has not been good: I got it to work by a fair amount to loading special stuff and compiling things to modprobe in code. But, the Linux drivers are constantly dropping the signal, and hanging up. Everying works perfectly with that other operating system. It seems pretty hard for Linux writers to get anything out of Intel.

I think it would be possible to get one of these PCI cards to work in Debian on my Toshiba (surely it cannot be as hard as the built in Intel chipset). But I did not quite feel up to it. So, just FYI, what I decided to do was to get a box that receives the 802.11g signal from my router and puts out ethernet. No software problems: it works with any Linux, and indeed any old Mac (my other problem). The box is D-Link-Wireless 108AG Gaming Adapter-DGL-3420, us70, which was recommended by the local Best Buy Geek (their marketing job this days is that they have such creatures onsite, and for once its true: he started Linux with RH 5, and instantly understood my problem.) This is for gamers but does the job I need, which is to get wireless on various old computers.

Thanks for the help, it convinced me to go something different!

David Riggs

(now in Ohio, longing for Kyoto)


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