Re: Wireless cards for Mepis Laptop

ok glad you asked.

i cannot vouch for the mepis livecd. but i use
slackware and wanted the exact same thing.

the Netgear MA401 802.11b card works
the cisco aironet 350 works

by 'works' i mean you plug it in and boot up the
computer and you're on wifi

at least that is my experience with these two cards
(pcmcia) with slackware.

the cisco aironet card is expensive but available for
purchase

the Netgear MA401 card is old and I had to order if
off of Amazon.com marketplace from a seller on that
site

NOTE* this is not a guarantee that it will work

Let me know if you want more details on the cards and
where you can buy them. Oh and I bought them both
online, never did find one at a store here in phoenix
that had one that worked.

Mike
--- Lee Einer <appealsman@cox.net> wrote:

> Hi, all-
>
> Thanks to the help of Sherry and Dennis at the last
> installfest, most
> everything is working now on my laptop. Well, almost
> everything. I spent
> an interesting but unproductive afternoon today
> trying to get a DWL-G630
> wireless D-link card to work in my laptop. Didn't
> get much in the way of
> error messages, except that dmesg shows "ERROR:
> Don't know how to get
> sensitivity for this radio type, please try to add
> that!" and "NETDEV
> WATCHDOG: transmission timed out." And iwconfig
> doesn't pick up the
> access point numbers UNLESS the WAP is powered up
> but unconnected to the
> internet. Other than that, the signal is detected,
> packets seem to be
> going back and forth, but I have no internet access
> with the device.
>
> If anybody has a simple solution to the DWL-G630
> conundrum, that would
> be great. Otherwise, I welcome reccommendations for
> a wireless card that
> will "just work," out of the box, with Mepis and the
> 2.6.7 kernel.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
>
>
> Lee Einer
> Dos Manos Jewelry
> http://www.dosmanosjewelry.com
>
>
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