GREAT NEWS!!!!

Forum: Networking
Topic: GREAT NEWS!!!!
started by: NewDude

Posted by NewDude on Mar. 03 2006,01:18

Hey, I know this might not matter or is no big deal to someone of you DSL veterans, but it is for me.

I went ahead and bought a Netgear MA311 802.11b wiresless card off Ebay. I picked it up for $27 with shipping/handling included. I read in the DSL 2.1 tutorial book they sell on here that MA311 works out of the box.

I just got it today, I just installed it into my computer and used the iwconfig gui and it worked. It took all of 3 mintues and that includes installing it and booting the system and inputing my ESSID and WEP... that was it!!! I swear to GOD, that was it... I am running DSL 2.2B

I have been messing and messing with an ACX 111 wireless card that I just could not get to work with DSL or Ubuntu. I did everything people told me including recompiling the drivers under Ubuntu. After that didn't work, I decided to just take the advice of the book and buy one that was proven to work. So I am here to say, MA311 by Netgear works great!!!!!!

TO ALL Newbie types, buy the MA311, I swear you won't be disappointed.

It might not be a 802.11g, but they are cheap, and they work. I am very, very happy and on cloud nine. Now I can do a frugal install on this system and start using DSL all the time and trash evil WIndozs!!!! YEAH!!!

Now my next goal is to ween my wife off Windoze and get her using Linux. As long as she has OpenOffice and internet, I think it is going to work out good.

Posted by torp on Mar. 03 2006,01:34

congrats! very envious here. my AT&T 6700 card fires right up just like yours, but cant make the connection....

Posted by Winterhart on Mar. 03 2006,01:38

Rats. I've got the same card, but am having infinite problems getting it connected. I don't use WEP auth, opting instead for WPA-PSK, and I'm completely unsure of how to configure that. Grr....

Posted by NewDude on Mar. 03 2006,04:11

Winterhart, I wish I could help. I don't know how to configure WPA, but I know WPA is more secure. I hope someone tells you or you figure it out.

torp, I am sorry to you to. I don't know enough about Linux to help anyone. I know hardware and writing code fairly well, but Linux is fairly new.

I messed with OpenLinux 2.3 and RedHat 6 at the end of 1999 into 2000, but I never got into it because I didn't have a home network or a lot of extra computers like I do now. Plus, I am just tired of Microsoft. I am burned out paying $100's of dollars for average to less than average products.. I guess you guys could say I reached my breaking point about 6 months ago and started taking a real serious look at different flavors of Linux.

I tried all the mainstream ones like SuSE, Fedora, Mandrake, etc... but those to me have gotten to bloated, just like Microsoft. It takes a lot of horse power to run them good.

Then one day I stumbled on DSL and I loved it. I also am running Ubuntu 5.10 to, and I like it as well, but I still find DSL better than them all because of the low system requirements as the tons of power you get from it.

Just my 2 cents...

Posted by doobit on Mar. 18 2006,17:24

I'm using the 6700g with the madwifi drivers. It works good, but at you say, no wep or wap. Still that's no big problem. I built a parabolic antenna for my router and set mac filtering to only accept my computers' mac addresses. That pretty much keeps my signal inside my house.