Re: [PLUG] Adventures in PCMCIA wireless

["Brian Vagnoni" <bvagnoni@v-system.net>]

Ahhh, install Suse. Not trying to a smart #$% I guess I just don't understand why people try and get stuff to work with these slightly off the beat and track versions of Linux. Please educate me, I can see just doing it for the challenge and not having a life factor. However, to read some of the comments posted by many on this list and seeing the trouble they've had had why bother. If you want to do all the cool fangled stuff, go with Suse/Opensuse, Redhat/Fedora. I mean won't it be easier just to take a vanilla kernel and make your own distro (insert your name) Linux. I guess distro to distro I don't see a lot of differences unless you are talking about a Backtrack, Knoppix-STD, and or Helix or other purpose driven distro's. 

I mean if I want a lean mean distro I just don't compile everything plus the kitchen sink into it. I can get that with Suse or Redhat and 9 x out of 10 stuff works out of the box without me having to do anything. 

Just curious.


Brian Vagnoni

 

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From: Art Alexion [mailto:art.alexion@verizon.net]
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Sent: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:54:07 -0500
Subject: [PLUG] Adventures in PCMCIA wireless

I finally got a wireless card that was recognized by my wife's kubuntu gutsy
laptop. It is an older Dell "B", that uses the "orinoco" chip set. The
first time I tried it it spotted our network along with 3 or 4 more in the
neighborhood. As I didn't have the passphrase for out network handy, I
allowed it to connect to one aptly called "Rayz is Free, <street address>".
Everything worked fine.

After work, I got our passphrase out and tried to connect to our network. It
spotted the network but wouldn't connect. Then after a few tries at manual
configuration (using the KDE gui), it wouldn't "see" any of the networks. I
hacked at it a few more times, and now it doesn't even recognize that the
card is in there.

Any ideas how to return this kubuntu gutsy machine back to default settings as
far as PCMCIA wireless?

Google has not been helpful, largely because I can't seem to craft an
appropriate query.

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