Don't do the hit and miss approach on wireless cards. Instead, consult the on line Wireless docs for what cards work. You can look at http://www.tldp.org and you can also look in the /usr/src/linux directory for supported devices. Let's start with how the card connects to the computer. Are we talking PCI or PCMCIA, for example? cris writes: > From: "cris" <filastin48 at hotmail.com> > > Hi again folks, > There is a misunderstanding here. I need to make the connection in my > office. My office is not wired, the only connection to the internet in my > office is wireless. I have two computers there, the first is using the > windows operating system. It has a wireless card and through it I can > access the internet just fine. The second computer is a linux box using > fedora. I already tried four different wireless cards on it, and got > nowhere. I simply could not find any linux drivers for any of them. I > would like to access the internet with the linux fedora box I have in my > office, instead of using the windows computer. Now, since the only access I > have to the internet is through windows. I want to try to network the linux > box to the windows system for the sole purpose of accessing the internet. > Is this possible. I got a network router lying around at home. I thought > if i take it to the office and link the two computers together, I may be > able to access the internet with my linux box, through the wireless > connection I have working on the machine using windows. I hope this is > clearer now. > By the way, Janina, What wireless card are you using? > Cheers, > Cris > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dawes, Stephen" <Stephen.Dawes at calgary.ca> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 4:26 PM > Subject: RE: networking linux with microsoft, is it easy? > > > Ok, Janina, > > You wax a little more poetically then I do, but are you not confirming > what I suggested earlier? > Steve Dawes > Phone: (403) 268-5527 > Email: SDawes at calgary.ca > > > > NOTICE:: > This communication is intended ONLY for the use of the person or entity > named above and may contain information that is confidential or legally > privileged. If you are not the intended recipient named above or a person > responsible for delivering messages or communications to the intended > recipient, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any use, distribution, or copying of > this communication or any of the information contained in it is strictly > prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify > us immediately by telephone and then destroy or delete this communication, > or return it to us by mail if requested by us. The City of Calgary thanks > you for your attention and cooperation. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Email: janina at rednote.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Director, Technology Research and Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) http://www.afb.org Chair, Accessibility Work Group Free Standards Group http://accessibility.freestandards.org
