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hseaver

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Posted: April 16 2006,14:01

Quote (safesys @ April 16 2006,09:46)

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And I have never, ever, before been on a forum where not only did NOBODY have a real technical clue, but the standard response when they couldn't answer a question was "If you don't like our little toy here, then just go away."

Whats bizarre is that you think hurling insults is the way to get an answer as though you have some god given right to get one.

I wouldn't be so quick to put the lack of a response down to lack of a "technical clue" as I would to the way you have posted thus far.

Really -- and your objection to my original post is?

No, the real bizarre thing is how many morons there are who really can't answer the question, but still feel they have to post.

safesys

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Posted: April 16 2006,14:15

I doubt anyone will read your posts and be bothered to help you even if they could - but of course you'd put that down to them being unable to do so.

You've already alienated yourself from some of the most knowledgable people here (not me I hasten to add - you're right about me, I'm just a moron).

hseaver

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Posted: April 16 2006,16:54

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Anyone who was alienated by my first several posts is too childish to have *any* sort of real knowledge anyway, and it is quite apparant from the lack of response to my first posts that there is no one, absolutely no one, on this board who has even remotely any real knowledge about unix systems.

cbagger01

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Posted: April 17 2006,04:15

OK,

I don't have a prism2-based wifi card or any wifi card for the record, which is why I tend to stay out of these areas but I'll take a stab at researching the topic.

1) What is the make and model number of your card?
2) If you type "lspci" or better yet "lspci -v" or run the "System Stats" program from the GUI, what is the information about your card (Vendor ID, card ID, text info)?
3) Is there a way to check and see if your pcmcia interface is working correctly? IE: If you try a different pcmcia device, does it work?

FYI, some prism2 cards can be driven with an orinoco driver and work properly, so this "strange driver is here" observation could be a side issue. But then again, I don't own one of these things so I'm not exactly an expert on the subject.

If DSL is loading incorrect network drivers, you can inhibit their loading at boot time using options like

expert

or maybe

dsl nonet

and then manually load the correct ones.

If they are already loaded, sometimes you can "rmmod" them and then "modprobe" or "insmod" the correct ones into place.

warbuckle

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Posted: April 20 2006,12:29

Hello,

I believe the original poster started out well........but got progressively worse as he posted more replies, however, I do agree with his frustration at no replies to his original query. While I cannot agree with the "route" his later posts took if you look through the forums there are a lot of posts that have been sitting for 2+ weeks with 130+ views, but no replies, it can be very irritating when you discover this fine distro and posts questions that sit for weeks with no replies........

Kudos to the poster prior to me for at least trying.

William

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