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May 1st, 2008

WPA without ndiswrapper on Xandros (for Asus EEE)

Timelady gave me a lovely link for all you Asus EEE users out there. It’s a guide on configuring WPA on Xandros.
What does it involve?

Removing the WPA supplicant installed by default.
Installing WPA supplicant from the Debian repositories.
Installing MadWifi drivers.
Creating wpa_supplicant.conf_MINE
Creating a new network configuration.
Making sure that you fix the network monitor icon.

The […]

By Clair -- 0 comments

March 28th, 2008

Get rid of the Broadcom blues~!

I saw this tip from one of the blogs on Planet Ubuntu:

* Create file /etc/init.d/ndiswrapper
o gksudo gedit /etc/init.d/ndiswrapper
* Add the text below, save and close
o #! […]

By Clair -- 0 comments

March 27th, 2006

HOWTO: Bringing Up Wireless Cards (continued)

I recently recorded a video over at The Linux Learning Station on using iwconfig, ifconfig, and dhclient to bring up a wireless network card. The process in the video is the process that I’ve always followed because, thankfully, both my PCMCIA cards are usually recognized by most distros.
My process basically involves setting the essid and […]

By Jon -- 6 comments