Although I can appreciate the opinion of Veronica Mars ;), and of the
latest Linux distro flavor of the month, Wireless on Linux is hardly
easy. It's a hornet's nest out there.<br>

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I have a Fujitsu N3010 with a Broadcom BCM4306 which works perfectly on
the dark side. I have a few requirements on how wifi should work for my
network. First, my wifi router is already setup with WPA PSK encryption
and it needs to work the same on Linix or I have to change it every
time I want to login. Second, my host does not broadcast it's SSID and
I don't want to change that either.<br>

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I struggled with setting up wifi on it with Suse 9.2 for a month and
gave up. I even tried the Linuxant Driverloader and could not get it to
work. I finally wiped Suse off the disk and went with someting I am
familiar with that has supposedly worked for other in this combination,
Madr[ake]iva, and their latest incarnation 2005 LE. I have used
Mandrake for years and I am very familiar with it (use what you know
when there's a problem). I went through the same steps as I did with
Suse
and it would not work with any of the three drivers I had. Then,
digging through the ndiswrapper wiki, I found reference to a Dell
driver for this chipset. I downloaded it, installed it, loaded the
module, and Bingo, everything worked. Go figure.<br>

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I also have a PMCCIA Airlink AWLC4030 and have not gotten
close to getting it to work yet (with any reasonable encryption) at
full speed.<br>
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The moral is, it is not easy to setup wifi on Linux. Your chipset,
distribution, driver loading method, encryption level, speed, and
security configuration all combine to make it much more complex than it
should be.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/24/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Derek Neighbors</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:derek@gnue.org">derek@gnue.org</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I have a Dell Latitude D505 with a broadcom.&nbsp;&nbsp;I installed Ubuntu and<br>virtually everything was recognized out of the box except for the<br>wireless card.&nbsp;&nbsp;I followed the how-to they provide (took about 5<br>minutes) and viola working wireless.
<br><br>If you are running a desktop or mobile computer I strongly suggest<br>Ubuntu.&nbsp;&nbsp;Plus, Veronica Mars mentioned Ubuntu on national television as<br>being better than OS X.&nbsp;&nbsp;Which means it must be cool. ;)<br><br>NDIS Ubuntu FAQ
<br><a href="http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/SetupNdiswrapperHowto/">http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/SetupNdiswrapperHowto/</a><br><br>-D<br><br>Eric &quot;Shubes&quot; wrote:<br><br>&gt; The pdf and tex forms of the document can be found at
<br>&gt; <a href="http://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0405&amp;L=asulug&amp;P=R10679&amp;I=-3">http://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0405&amp;L=asulug&amp;P=R10679&amp;I=-3</a></blockquote><div><br>
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</div></div><br>-- <br>Donn<br>&quot;Sarcasm is the safe alternative to expressing anger.&quot;<br>--Richard North Patterson