Re: Install which Linux? (or avoiding dirty birds)
Wayne Topa <linuxone@intergate.com> replied:
The pcmcia slots _did_ work for a week or two. Got it used from Ebay
so I probably was luckey they worked for that long
Mine is a discard from my son. So mine may be totally bad. :-(
Every time I try a card, the cursor on the Windows screen freezes.
However, Linux might work better?
>I have a U.S.Robotics 100 Mbps 802.11g Wireless Turbo PC Card --USR5410--
>with an installation CDROM (probably intended mainly for Windows).
>I have a Belkin F5D7050 USB Wireless Adapter - 54 Mbps, 802.11g, USB 2.0
>on order from Tigerdirect.
>Do you know which one would work? Or if both work, which one is better?
Not really. As I don't run Winbloz, I googled for Wireless adapters
that ran on Linux, then if the drivers were running on Debian, then
the driver info itself. I found that the Madwifi software worked on
many many cards and seems to have the most versitle software, I went
and picked a few from their compatability list
<http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatability>. They, as of now, do not
support any USB adapters. I have NetGear CardBus and PCI cards and a
DLink PCI card running with MadWifi.
I will definitely look into MadWifi!
I have had some success running USB adapters on the 770's. By far the
easiest, so far, was a real cheap (< $18) I found on Ebay. It is an
Ashton Digital WRUB-2011i with a Prism2 chipset. It uses the
linux-wlan-ng drivers, supported by Debian of course. Another is also
working, but not with Kismet (darn it), is quite unique. It is a USB
dongle or minicard mounted on the mast of a 17 element, +24dbi gain
yagi antenna. It comes with a 15 foot cable terminated with a USB
connector. The driver is zd2111 which is on Debian, of course. This
is a nice setup as there is no lossy feedline to contend with. I have
used it with USB Repeater cables 60 feet from the laptop and it works
great. Two other USB adapters are somewhat working but not able to
connect to an AP. The drivers are still being developed. So in
short, other then the above 2 USB adapters, PCMCIA/CardBus seem to be
the way to go the the 770's.
Then I hope the US Robotics card will work, or I get lucky with the
Belkin adapter!
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Right. The newest netinstall iso would be preferable.
Not a problem for me! I just have to do it!
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I am a command line person. I don't need a lot of glitz in windows.
I used wmaker for a while but have settled on fluxbox. Lightweight
and it doesn't get in my way. I run some KDE and Gnome Apps but find
it easier to get things running without X apps. The screens on the
770 will only do 1024x768 so the less clutter the better. JMHO.
I would definitely be interested in your description of wmaker and
fluxbox especially if they are Debian packages!
Hope this helps you get Connected.
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The quoting
style of this (your) message was, well, different to say the least.
Ah, it was hand-cobbled. I composed it in a well-known Word
Processor (We won't say which one!) and then pasted it into
Thunderbird. I know how to eliminate the HTML and rtf stuff that some
newbies inadvertently put into a message (simple choices under the
Thunderbird Tools menu). I put the initials of the responder in the
lines to allow readers to know who was 'speaking.' And I tried to
eliminate redundant wording to cut down on the storage required for the
thread. Oh well, here's your chance to recommend your favorite client
along with fluxbox!
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