Comments on: FC5 and Wireless Card http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/04/20/fc5-and-wireless-card/ The supposedly futile struggle against chaos - with a focus on Linux migration, security, corrosion engineering, surviving cancer, website construction, and life... Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:11:06 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Greg http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/04/20/fc5-and-wireless-card/comment-page-1/#comment-1944 Greg Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:32:56 +0000 http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/04/20/fc5-and-wireless-card#comment-1944 Hee he, he... Yes, Dane, I'm not surprised that you couldn't restrain yourself there. And I'll be the first to admit that getting wireless cards, particularly cheapo wireless cards, to work with Linux can be a hassle - they are the Achilles' heel of Linux installs. But if you've followed my writings on this subject, you may recall that I started off with a newly-built box and plugged in a used hard drive with two pre-installed operating sytems - Windows and RedHat. You want to guess which one handled that boot up better? The only thing that didn't work right away was the wireless card in Linux. I still don't have the Windows partition working properly. Yes, I'm getting a crash course in stuff that I should be learning anyway, and when I do get it working, I'll also be able to use the card as an AP as well a client. Hee he, he…

Yes, Dane, I’m not surprised that you couldn’t restrain yourself there. And I’ll be the first to admit that getting wireless cards, particularly cheapo wireless cards, to work with Linux can be a hassle – they are the Achilles’ heel of Linux installs.

But if you’ve followed my writings on this subject, you may recall that I started off with a newly-built box and plugged in a used hard drive with two pre-installed operating sytems – Windows and RedHat. You want to guess which one handled that boot up better? The only thing that didn’t work right away was the wireless card in Linux. I still don’t have the Windows partition working properly.

Yes, I’m getting a crash course in stuff that I should be learning anyway, and when I do get it working, I’ll also be able to use the card as an AP as well a client.

]]> By: Dane Hershberger http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/04/20/fc5-and-wireless-card/comment-page-1/#comment-1942 Dane Hershberger Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:45:52 +0000 http://www.gregrperry.com/blog/2006/04/20/fc5-and-wireless-card#comment-1942 One suggestion: On my machine, when I insert a wireless card, it pretty much just works. Of course, I'm using Windows... One suggestion: On my machine, when I insert a wireless card, it pretty much just works.

Of course, I’m using Windows…

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