Re: [tlug] Debian supported wireless PC Card

[David Riggs <dariggs@example.com>]

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)