DriverLoader in Fedora
Paul Morgan
paul.morgan at jumanjihouse.com
Tue Nov 11 01:45:07 UTC 2003
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 18:35, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> However,
>
> *Your wireless NIC must be using a chipset supported by Linuxant! Don't
> bother installing it if your chipset is not supported.
>
> *you must read and follow the installation directions posted on the
> Linuxant site.* This is very important, don't just try to rpm -ivh the
> package. There are several steps you need to follow.
>
> *You must have the Microsoft Windows driver components ready for the
> Linuxant driverloader to work with.
>
> *At the web-based login screen for the Linuxant product, you must login
> as root.
>
> *You must have a license key from Linuxant to completely install the
> product! Therefore your computer needs to be connected to the internet
> if you wish to take advantage of their automated registration and key
> generation facilities.
>
> *After installation of the driver loader, you may very well have to
> change the order in which the boot time runlevel scripts execute.
> S24pcmcia problably needs to be run before S10network.
>
> I'm probably going to dump my 30 day trial of the Driverloader when it
> expires because Linuxant never responded to my support queries and the
> product is not that great when I get down to it. For instance it won't
> tell me the active SSID's in my area. It has some rough edges that
> cause error messages.
>
> Bob
Thanks for the informative comments. As an owner of a centrino laptop
(fubar!), the first mention of driverloader piqued my interest.
For now I'll stick with my linksys v3 card (but am seriously eyeing a
cisco pcmcia wi-fi adapter).
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