Wireless under Redhat 9.0 and Slackware 9.0

As are most others in the Linux community, I'm tired of jacking around
with hardware vendors who refuse to support their products with Linux
drivers. I have an Intel Pro 2100 in my Toshiba laptop and D-Link Air
Extreme in my desktop both of which have no drivers (not that I can find
at least) for operation under Linux. Does anybody have a suggestion for
replacement of these dogs. I know there are some out there but I would
be grateful for any personal satisfaction testaments for any wireless NICs.
Thanks.

Weltini

https://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/


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> As are most others in the Linux community, I'm tired of jacking around
> with hardware vendors who refuse to support their products with Linux
> drivers. I have an Intel Pro 2100 in my Toshiba laptop and D-Link Air
> Extreme in my desktop both of which have no drivers (not that I can find
> at least) for operation under Linux. Does anybody have a suggestion for
> replacement of these dogs. I know there are some out there but I would
> be grateful for any personal satisfaction testaments for any wireless
NICs.
> Thanks.
>
> Weltini

weltini wrote:

> As are most others in the Linux community, I'm tired of jacking around
> with hardware vendors who refuse to support their products with Linux
> drivers. I have an Intel Pro 2100 in my Toshiba laptop and D-Link Air
> Extreme in my desktop both of which have no drivers (not that I can find
> at least) for operation under Linux. Does anybody have a suggestion for
> replacement of these dogs. I know there are some out there but I would
> be grateful for any personal satisfaction testaments for any wireless
> NICs. Thanks.
>
> Weltini

Have a linksys wpc11. Redhat found it, but did a little configuring. Used it
since RH9.0 came out. I think it needs newer drivers from the linux wlan
project. Just now installed Slackware 9.0. Slackware found and set it up
perfect. I was really surprised as I didn't do anything. Login, ping
google.com and my server - perfect. It is about half way copying a 10gig
file from server (NFS) to laptop as a test with no problems.
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robert - redhat 9.0 & Slackware 9.1

reh wrote:


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> Have a linksys wpc11. Redhat found it, but did a little configuring. Used
> it since RH9.0 came out. I think it needs newer drivers from the linux
> wlan
> project. Just now installed Slackware 9.0. Slackware found and set it up
> perfect. I was really surprised as I didn't do anything. Login, ping
> google.com and my server - perfect. It is about half way copying a 10gig
> file from server (NFS) to laptop as a test with no problems.

opps, make that Slackware 9.1. Also the wcp11 is v3.0. Go to
linuxquestions.org, forums->slackware. There is some information for wpc11
v4.0, since it uses different chips. That's probably all you can find now.

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robert - redhat 9.0

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> weltini wrote:
>
> > As are most others in the Linux community, I'm tired of jacking around
> > with hardware vendors who refuse to support their products with Linux
> > drivers. I have an Intel Pro 2100 in my Toshiba laptop and D-Link Air
> > Extreme in my desktop both of which have no drivers (not that I can find
> > at least) for operation under Linux. Does anybody have a suggestion for
> > replacement of these dogs. I know there are some out there but I would
> > be grateful for any personal satisfaction testaments for any wireless
> > NICs. Thanks.
> >
> > Weltini

I have got this working with the driverloader from linuxant.com using
the XP driver that came with the card version 7.0.0
Have a linksys access point.

There where no big problems in getting it working, only getting the
syntax of the linksys ap correct. The iwconfig and iwlist commands
found the ap right away.
Used Managed mode

Did the usual updates for redhat 9 kernel,


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> Have a linksys wpc11. Redhat found it, but did a little configuring. Used it
> since RH9.0 came out. I think it needs newer drivers from the linux wlan
> project. Just now installed Slackware 9.0. Slackware found and set it up
> perfect. I was really surprised as I didn't do anything. Login, ping
> google.com and my server - perfect. It is about half way copying a 10gig
> file from server (NFS) to laptop as a test with no problems.