Re: Wireless card for emachine?

[Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk>]

Celejar wrote:
> [...]
> 
> The first question is, what wireless card is in the machine? Do lspci,
> and find the entry corresponding to the wireless card. 
> 

Then find the chipset of the wireless card and install the appropriate kernel
module driver. Alternatively, use Ndiswrapper and the Windows driver. Test the
card with tools from the wireless-tools package.

There are examples for the RaLink chipset [1] and for Ndiswrapper [2] on the
NewbieDOC wiki [1].

[1]
http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/How_to_set_up_a_wireless_network_card_using_drivers_from_Debian_packages
[2] http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Installing_Ndiswrapper_in_Debian


-- 
Chris.