On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 02:01, Tom Badran wrote: > On Friday 24 May 2002 12:33 am, you wrote: > > No such thing. I've been trying to get a U.S. Robotics wireless card to > > work on a Sony VAIO PCG-SR7. I finally gave up trying LM8.2 and switched > > to Debian; I'm a lot closer, but still unsuccessful. > > I had to borrow a wirelass card (lucent chipset i believe) to do a > presentation at college, and i just plugged it in in place of my normal > pcmcia lan card and it worked perfectly. Im still to find a pcmcia network > card (and ive tried many) that didnt just plug in and work with my laptop. As > long as networking is configured (i find linuxconf most flexible and > reliable) then everything should just work. This is true for me with both > DHCP and static IP. > > You might find that the cards modules are auto loaded (they probably are) but > you may have to do an 'ifup eth0' as root, as the pcmcia-cs package that > shipped with 8.2 didnt autload everything properly. >
Yours is exactly the kind of experience I was hoping to have with LM. I believe my problems started with my VAIO, which uses the one and only PCMCIA slot to host the CD-ROM -- the installer thought I didn't have a PCMCIA device. By any chance were you using WEP encryption? The last stumbling block for me with LM8.2 was that I could not set my WEP key. --gd
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