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Author: Gerard Snitselaar
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Linux Laptop
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 18:12 -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> Gerard Snitselaar wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 09:00 -0700, Carl Parrish wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Okay basically my concerns are 1) getting the wireless networking going.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Does it have a built in wireless chipset, or do you need to purchase an
> >adapter? As was pointed out there is ndiswrapper . If it is an atheros
> >chipset that you end up using there are the madwifi drivers for those.
> >I have used it on a toshiba laptop I used to have, and also with a pci
> >wifi card on a system at home.
> >
> >
>
> I've got an atheros with madwifi drivers in my laptop as well. Works
> fine with one small exception: once in a while the laptop will hard
> freeze. I haven't traced the problem, but I think it's the madwifi
> because it has *only* ever happened when I'm actively on WLAN.
>


I've had that happen, but it was only when using the Apani Nortel VPN
client, so I figured it was that as I've had problems with the vpn
client before on other systems.
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