Microsoft MN-720 wireless adapter (was: Re: wireless)

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 23:45 6/13/2004, Don Dupy wrote:
>It was a legitimate response.......
>and good advice.

What is good advice or not is of course subjective. IMHO you added 
*nothing* to the user's experience or benefit, and probably made the rest 
of us look bad in the process. And top-posted just to make others' lives a 
little more difficult. Sheesh.

>OK, here is better advice....
>Get and orinoco card.
>My experience has been that orinoco cards work with FC painlessly.
>The original and still the best........

Incomplete advice and certainly incorrect. The old Lucent/Agere Orinoco 
cards (the ones with the square antenna) work well and are natively 
supported since RHL-8.0 if I recall correctly. HOWEVER, newer Orinoco cards 
are *not* natively supported since they changed the internal chipset of the 
cards. STFW for more detail, but likely if the original poster had gone out 
directly to buy the first Orinoco card he found your advice would have 
gotten him screwed.

As to the original problem...

> > > On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Watcher wrote:
> > > > Having a bit of a problem getting my wireless LAN card on my laptop 
> to work. It is a Microsoft (sorry) MN720. Any suggestions or do I need to 
> look at getting another card? This one was given to me so I won't be out 
> anything.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > C-man

C-man, several people on this list have reported success in getting the MS 
MN-720 adapter to work. Please search the archives and Google in order to 
find the right instructions. As an example, searching for "Microsoft MN-720 
wireless adapter 802.11b Linux Red Hat Fedora Core" on Google got me this 
from the second link on the very first page of results:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/3/2003/11/1/110130

While this is surely not the only way, and may or may not be the best way 
from your point of view, it is at least one option. And it's also true that 
paying $15 or $20 (I forget) to Linuxant for their driver is cheaper than 
getting another card. Another project that may help you (and has zero cost) is:

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net

Cheers,


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