[ale] MintWifi

[Paul Cartwright]

On Wednesday 24 January 2007 14:20, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> > I would try downloading the Windows driver for the card that you have
> > and see if you can install it using the NDIS-Gtk front-end program,
> > which you can find in "System?Administration?Windows Wireless Drivers".
>
> installed the INF, no luck.I seem to recall the only way I got it working
> BM ( before mint ) was if I changed my wireless access to OPEN. That isn't
> a really big deal around here, as I can see the 2 houses that are within
> 300 feet of me.. and I know them both, and neither has wireless.

ok, so I had to go into my router and disable security, now it works. The 
wireless settings in Linux can't handle WPA security, I didn't try WEP..
I don't think I've ever gotten WEP settings to work, even with M$-XP..

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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800