I have a Belkin that I bought at RadioShack for $80 CDN Had to edit the wireless.opts in RH8 but RH9 picked it up without problems A quick edit in the RH network config gui for Encryption and has been working great A little annoying that RH doesn't use the standard wireless config files though Keith Winston (kwinston@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >Glenn Cannon wrote: >> KBB0927@xxxxxx wrote: >> >>> Update to the latest kernel from RedHat using up2date and your woes >>> should >>> go away. Mind did with my Linksys v3.0 on my Compaq Armada M700 once I >>> did >>> this. >> >> I ran up2date, and now have the updated kernel. >> Unfortunately I still have the same problem. Every 2-3 minutes, I need >> to take my eth1 down and back up in order to keep my wireless link running. >> >> What do I have set wrong? >> If I need a more Linux friendly wifi card, what is best? > >I have an Orinoco Silver wireless card that has worked very well with >many Linux distros in the past. However, I started having problems with >the 2.4.20-9 kernel and continued to have problems with the 2.4.20-13 >kernel. I get lots of transmission errors like this: > > RX packets:458 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:499 errors:171 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > >It works much better with the original kernel 2.4.20-6, but still is not >as good as the 2.4.18 series. Not quite sure why things are getting worse. > >Best Regards, >Keith > > > -- Brian Johnson * This is where my witty signature line would be if I bothered to edit this line :) *
