Wireless Linux - Self proclaimed expert avail

[X-Calibur]

Just a quick note.
After spending more then half a day getting a wireless network to work I claim the above title.
If anyone needs help. Just post in this thread.

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[X-Calibur]

Note to self:
done with ndiswrapper and stock WinXP drivers
upgrade to stack 16 kernel
modprobe configured through /sbin/iwconfig
Use kwifimanager for monitoring.

[LBaker]

What issues did you have trouble with? All of my wireless cards have worked "out of the box". Mepis, Ubuntu, PClinuxos, Fedora and a few others all worked for me. Good thing too, it's not like I would have figured it out on my own. :)

[X-Calibur]

What issues did you have trouble with? All of my wireless cards have worked "out of the box". Mepis, Ubuntu, PClinuxos, Fedora and a few others all worked for me. Good thing too, it's not like I would have figured it out on my own. :)
Everything actually.
Power requirement went overboard when plugged in usb hub (100mA over limit) so card was not functionning (thanks to the dmesg cmd, could figure that one out) and had to use a dedicated USB port.
WiFi card is a USB card. Was not recognized.
Wrong driver from the Netgear website. The one on the CD was working though.
lsusb was not installed (took a while to figure how to get the USBID to match device with driver (0000:0000 format).
Had to ndiswrapper -m early on to get the module to be loaded in module.conf (not mentionned on the ndiswrapper installation wiki).
Had to upgrade to a stack 16 kernel. Otherwise, random lockups.
Had to add 0x in front of WEP key to label it as "hex" so it would match the router's.

All little things, but if you don't know, it doesn't work out of the box.

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