Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

[David Parker]

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From: tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 6:02 pm
Subject: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

> i am a linux newbie having trouble getting my wireless stuff to
> work. i am
> running debian on a toshiba satellite laptop. the wireless card
> is a d-link
> dwl-g650. i am looking for info on the latest debian methods for
> dealing with
> this technology.
>
> thanks,
>
> tom arnall
> north spit, ca
>
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Hello,

I had great luck just a few days ago with ndiswrapper and wpa_supplicant.  I am now using a Linksys WPC54G wireless card with an old Acer laptop running Debian and it works just fine.  You will likely need to compile both of them, but it was very easy to do and once they were compiled, the instructions on their respective pages were very easy to follow.  ndiswrapper allows you to use the Windows driver for almost any device in Linux.  wpa_supplicant allows you to define connections that use WPA.

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/
http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/

    Good Luck,
    Dave