DriverLoader in Fedora

[Paul Morgan]

On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 18:35, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> However,
> 
> *Your wireless NIC must be using a chipset supported by Linuxant! Don't 
> bother installing it if your chipset is not supported.
> 
> *you must read and follow the installation directions posted on the 
> Linuxant site.* This is very important, don't just try to rpm -ivh the 
> package. There are several steps you need to follow.
> 
> *You must have the Microsoft Windows driver components ready for the 
> Linuxant driverloader to work with.
> 
> *At the web-based login screen for the Linuxant product, you must login 
> as root.
> 
> *You must have a license key from Linuxant to completely install the 
> product! Therefore your computer needs to be connected to the internet 
> if you wish to take advantage of their automated registration and key 
> generation facilities.
> 
> *After installation of the driver loader, you may very well have to 
> change the order in which the boot time runlevel scripts execute. 
> S24pcmcia problably needs to be run before S10network.
> 
> I'm probably going to dump my 30 day trial of the Driverloader when it 
> expires because Linuxant never responded to my support queries and the 
> product is not that great when I get down to it. For instance it won't 
> tell me the active SSID's in my area. It has some rough edges  that 
> cause error messages.
> 
> Bob

Thanks for the informative comments. As an owner of a centrino laptop
(fubar!), the first mention of driverloader piqued my interest. 

For now I'll stick with my linksys v3 card (but am seriously eyeing a
cisco pcmcia wi-fi adapter).