question about wi-fi

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Paul:

I have heard that work is being done on Airport Extreme; that is, a 
driver is being developed for it.  Other than that the only option (for 
those caring on a reasonable semblance of mobility is to acquire a 
PCMCIA card for which drivers already exist.  A list is here:

http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/hardware/devices.shtml

The list also should include the Netgear WG511 and WG511T; How Tos 
exist for those cards as well, although I haven't been able to get the 
WG511T up and running on my version of YDL 4.1 either.  I've reported 
the details regarding it to TSS, I'm not sure when a resolution to 
these issues will occur.

Regarding KwifiManager, it already exists within YDL 4.1. You'll find it
under Networking...  Thanks for making me aware of it's existence.  I
normally prefer working in Gnome exclusively.  But if I can get my card
working and I have to live in KDE to do it... I'll tolerate KDE.

Good Luck....

On Mar 23, 2006, at 4:33 PM, Paul Higgins wrote:

> It sounds like wireless is set up in YDL 4.1 much the same as it is
in 
> 4.0.1,
> using System Settings > Network.  However, what I'm interested in (if 
> it
> exists) is a way for the system to recognize a new wireless zone 
> without
> rebooting.  From what I understand, Kwifimanager is supposed to do 
> this, but
> at least in 4.0.1 it won't run (crashes on launch).  You can find
> Kwifimanager under Internet > More Internet Applications (at least 
> that's how
> it is on my iBook, running 4.0.1).
>
> If anyone has advice on getting Kwifimanager working, possibly by 
> installing
> from source, I'm interested.  The TerraSoft people didn't really have 
> any
> idea what to do about the problem.
>
> Also, re: the unsupported Airport Extreme cards, what can be used 
> instead for
> wireless access?
>
> Thanks,
> -PRH
>