[COLUG] Wireless woes

[David McGlone]

On Thursday 19 July 2007 11:29:15 pm Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> On 7/19/07, David McGlone <david.mcglone at att.net> wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > sorry I accidently sent the unfinished e-mail. laptop touchpad was under
> > my palm.
> >
> > I put a wireless nic in my desktop running kubuntu 7.04. I am using
> > ndiswrapper and the card shows at wlan0 but there is something wrong.
>
> Can I ask if you've tried an open source or at least Linux-native
> driver for your wireless hardware?
>
> Also, are you using NetworkManager to connect your WLAN or are you
> using the 'iwconfig' commands? Perhaps you should try the other if
> you've only tried one.

I gave up. I hear too many people say WEP doesn't work correctly with the 
card, so I just turned off WEP and used MAC address filtering and no 
broadcasting SSID.

This is only going to be temporary until I can get me a better wireless NIC 
for the desktop.


-- 
David M.