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Re: [PLUG] Adventures in PCMCIA wireless
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I have had lots of fun installing various wireless cards on oddball systems.
One big duh moment came with one of them that I was trying to get WPA working, but the card was old enough that it did not support WPA, only WEP.
I didn't realize that and the distro (I think it was DSL) did not provide any feedback regarding the situation.
That was nice to finally solve.
-Andrew
On Jan 22, 2008 3:54 PM, Art Alexion < art.alexion@verizon.net> wrote:
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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