Wireless Linksys wpc54g

[Mr Carl Richmond]

Does anyone out there have clear and specific
instructions for installing the Linksys WPC54G
wireless pcmcia card?

Thank you,
Carl

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[Knute Johnson]

> Does anyone out there have clear and specific
> instructions for installing the Linksys WPC54G
> wireless pcmcia card? 
Carl:

I've got one too and it worked fine until about mdway through FC5.  
Then something changed and I never could get it to work again.  If 
you turn up with a combination that works, please post something 
here.  There are several people around with those cards.

Thanks,

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[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 21:18 -0800, Knute Johnson wrote:
>  >Does anyone out there have clear and specific
>  >instructions for installing the Linksys WPC54G
>  >wireless pcmcia card?
>  
>  Carl:
>  
>  I've got one too and it worked fine until about mdway through FC5.  
>  Then something changed and I never could get it to work again.  If 
>  you turn up with a combination that works, please post something 
>  here.  There are several people around with those cards. 
Could it be that your module quit with a kernel update and needs
recompiling? You are aware of the kernel version screwup with FC6? Fix
that, and try a tarball for your card and compile it yourself for your
current kernel. Might be worth a shot. I install things like that for
java and my webcam in /opt FC doesn't do anything with /opt so it's safe
there. Then when you update your kernel, you can go there and
re-compile. Then you don't have to wait for someone to remember to
upgrade your module rpm for the next kernel... which can take days. Ric

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[Knute Johnson]

Ric Moore wrote:
>  On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 21:18 -0800, Knute Johnson wrote:
> >> Does anyone out there have clear and specific
> >> instructions for installing the Linksys WPC54G
> >> wireless pcmcia card?
> > Carl:
> >
> > I've got one too and it worked fine until about mdway through FC5.  
> > Then something changed and I never could get it to work again.  If 
> > you turn up with a combination that works, please post something 
> > here.  There are several people around with those cards.
>  
>  Could it be that your module quit with a kernel update and needs
>  recompiling? You are aware of the kernel version screwup with FC6? Fix
>  that, and try a tarball for your card and compile it yourself for your
>  current kernel. Might be worth a shot. I install things like that for
>  java and my webcam in /opt FC doesn't do anything with /opt so it's safe
>  there. Then when you update your kernel, you can go there and
>  re-compile. Then you don't have to wait for someone to remember to
>  upgrade your module rpm for the next kernel... which can take days. Ric
>   
I was using ndiswrapper and wpa_supplicant.  They had to be recompiled 
every time I changed kernels.  But after a while they just wouldn't work 
any more.  They still compiled OK but no wireless connection.

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