Wireless Linksys wpc54g

[Knute Johnson]

Ric Moore wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 21:18 -0800, Knute Johnson wrote:
>>> Does anyone out there have clear and specific
>>> instructions for installing the Linksys WPC54G
>>> wireless pcmcia card?
>> Carl:
>>
>> I've got one too and it worked fine until about mdway through FC5.  
>> Then something changed and I never could get it to work again.  If 
>> you turn up with a combination that works, please post something 
>> here.  There are several people around with those cards.
> 
> Could it be that your module quit with a kernel update and needs
> recompiling? You are aware of the kernel version screwup with FC6? Fix
> that, and try a tarball for your card and compile it yourself for your
> current kernel. Might be worth a shot. I install things like that for
> java and my webcam in /opt FC doesn't do anything with /opt so it's safe
> there. Then when you update your kernel, you can go there and
> re-compile. Then you don't have to wait for someone to remember to
> upgrade your module rpm for the next kernel... which can take days. Ric
> 

I was using ndiswrapper and wpa_supplicant.  They had to be recompiled 
every time I changed kernels.  But after a while they just wouldn't work 
any more.  They still compiled OK but no wireless connection.

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