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[Jason Abernathy]

I've managed to get wireless working on my laptop.

It only works when I load it with a command line and manually connect to 
a node. The GNOME wireless manager doesn't seem to work with it.

- Jason

Lloyd D Budd wrote:
> On 1/17/07, Murray Strome <wmstrome at shaw.ca> wrote:
>>
>> One problem I had with switching one machine to LINUX was that it was
>> located in a place which was difficult to run an ethernet cable, so I
>> used wireless. I could never figure out how to get the wireless card to
>> work with LINUX.
>
> It was a couple of years ago when last installed a wireless card. At
> first I tried a USB based one -- that was a no go. I had to go through
> the tedious steps of determining what cards were most likely to work,
> and then install it and confirm it had the supported chipsets.
>
> As much as possible, I like to get used parts like this from people
> that have already used them with Linux.
>