Setting Up Linksys Wireless Internet with Fadora
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Thu Sep 1 12:46:18 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 22:53 -0700, Monkey Pet wrote:
> I used ndiswrapper on multiple laptops and pci cards without any hitch
> so far. But for a newbie ndiswrapper might hard to deal with since:
> 1. You need to recompile the kernel, since the default fedora kernel
> uses 4k stacks.
You MAY need to recompile the kernel. Only those who experience the
lockups when using the default kernel need to consider that.
A lot of us don't need to, and if we do the kernel rpm with 16K stack is
available from linuxant.com
http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/full/downloads-fc3-kernel-
i686.php
http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/full/downloads-fc4-kernel-
i686.php
> 2. You need to compile ndiswrapper.
True
> 3. You need to configure ndiswrapper.
Only so far as installing the windows drivers, which you need to do on
any system the adapter is put into ( Windows, Linux, etc.).
>
>
>
> On 8/31/05, mindwave at cfl.rr.com <mindwave at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> dont know anything about a key.
>
> but i used this:
>
> https://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/downloads-
> installer.php
>
> in my laptop and it works like a charm.
>
> its $20 but WELL worthwhile.
>
> the ndiswrapper would load but i could never get it connected
> to my
> network by manually configuring.
>
> my time is worth a little more than $20.
>
> j
>
>
>
> Hello All,
>
> I am trying to set up a wireless network in my house and one
> of the computers is running Fadora. I know absolutly nothing
> about the operating system and any help would be greatly
> appreciated. I need to know where exactly I enter the key so
> that the adapter can connect to the network.
>
> Thanks in Advance
> -John
>
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