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Topic: DELL Wireless works in Knoppix 3.6 but not DSL 2.2

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jakes

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Posted: Mar. 24 2006,00:37

I have a 256 mb of usb pen drive to use it as a rescue live linux. I tried knoppix, it worked as a gem from a Live CD, But I couldn't fit in to my 256 flash usb drive. So I choose DSL, but I am facing a problem when I trying to install my wirless card.

ndiswrapper installation guide and list of wireless cards

I followed the instructions given in the above site to install my Dell Wireless 1450 (802.11a/b/g) Dual-Band WLAN miniPCI Card in Knoppix 3.6 and 3.7 with the ndiswrapper, it worked flawlessly. However when I did the same with DSL 2.2 I couldn't get it to work. I believed if DSL is based on Knoppix it should work the same.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Jks

hs7sv

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Posted: Mar. 24 2006,06:56

Is it Dell Wireless 1450 USB 2.0 Adapter or Dell Wireless 1470 WLAN miniPCI Card?

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jakes

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Posted: Mar. 24 2006,20:14

It's the 1450 MiniPCI Card in-built with the labtop. I don't see 1470 anywhere in the window Harware Manager screen. Yesterday I even tried with the lastest RC2 of DSL it didn't work too. The whole system was hanging

roberts

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Posted: Mar. 24 2006,21:46

It would appear that your newer hardware will require the next/newer kernel 2.6 based system that we will soon be offering in addition to our flagship DSL. Otherwise you may wish to try your hand at compiling a newer ndiswrapper?

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