question about wi-fi

[Paul Higgins]

Thanks for the info.  You mention the PCMCIA cards; will these work in both 
the Airport Extreme slots as well as the regular Airport slots like my iBook?  
And with those drivers installed, will a machine with a PCMCIA card be able 
to detect a new wireless signal without rebooting?

In case you're wondering about my particular situation: I work at the U of MN, 
and the entire campus is a wireless zone, not to mention all the coffee 
houses, etc.  It's really nice to be able to walk into a library, open up 
your notebook, and be able to work without a reboot.  (Though to be fair to 
YDL, it boots *much* faster than OS X on this machine).  There are those 
little USB wireless dongles as well--do you know if they work, or is that 
also an issue of having the proper drivers?

I'd also be interested to hear what anyone's experience has been with the new 
Kwifimanager in 4.1, and whether it's still crashing on launch like it did in 
4.0.1.

-PRH

On Thursday 23 March 2006 22:11, Derick Centeno wrote:
> 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....