scotf
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Posted: April 02 2005,02:26 |
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Hey Bufenator,
I too have had a lot of trouble with wireless cards ... not just DSL but Fedora as well.
It depends quite a bit on the network card you are trying to use ...
1) This forum has a list of cards that others have had success with and some that don't.
2) Native drivers are available for cards based on PRISM chipsets (and maybe others ORINOCO?)
That being said ndiswrapper is available, which in theory, will allow you to use Windows drivers for your network card. ndiswrapper is amazing, pretty straightforward to configure. Here's the rub, the stack size in most linux distros is 4K or 8K. Some of these drivers require 12K in order to work properly. That means you have to rebuild the kernel. Actually, the linuxant web sites has some pre-built kernels that one may just download. Although, I didn't see anything for DSL.
Give ndiswrapper a shot. My experience is that it always works in a wireless network with no security (WEP, WPA). As soon as you try to configure the wireless card with iwconfig wlan0 key, things will start to go wacky. Sometimes immediately, sometimes within a minute or two. In this case, the stack size is too small, a different kernel is necessary.
It looks as though you are trying to rebuild the kernel yourself. I downloaded the kernel-package and kernel source and gcc packages. I didn't get very far, seem to be missing quite a few things. Also, I really am not a linux expert or software developer ... for someone who knows what they are doing, it might be pretty straight forward.
Until a better solution arrives, I came up with an alternate hardware solution. Ahh, maybe on a rainy day I'll learn to how to recompile the kernel and publish a how-to.
Until then best regards,
Scot
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