Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?
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Kent West wrote:
> If I understood all that, I bet I could figure out how to get my
> wireless network working. However, I've been googling/studying off and
> on for the past year, everytime I try to put Debian (or Ubuntu, or
> whatever) on a laptop that comes across my path (and failing pretty much
> every time on the wireless), but I've never found a site that actually
> has gotten me to an understanding of the process. Some sites talk about
> gui configuration clients I don't have, or compiling drivers manually
> which I don't need to do, or using ndiswrapper (?!), etc.
>
> Maybe the process is just WAY too complex to be explained for mere
> mortals who aren't in the mechanics of Linux networking on a daily basis.
I was in a similar situation like you before I started using wicd.
(People on lenny should use backport's wicd). It just hides all the
unnecessary complexity of wireless behind a rather intuitive and simple
interface. You configure it once for a new environment and it will work
henceforth. I have multiple different wireless and wired networks
configured on my laptop that "just work", now.
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Johannes
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the
humble reasoning of a single individual. -- Galileo Galilei, physicist
and astronomer (1564-1642)
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