[Fedora-livecd-list] wireless and liveCD

[Thomas Chung]

On 12/28/06, Tony Grant <tony at tgds.net> wrote:
> I have been reading the list but not working on my liveCD because my
> machine died. One issue that I have with Fedora is the impossibility of
> using ndiswrapper to load Windows drivers for unsupported WiFi chipsets.
>
> I have a very nice $2 on ebay Linksys WUSB11v.4 adaptor that caused me
> much jumping though very large hoops to get working because of the 4K
> stack issue:
> http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Fedora
> I followed the instructions there to download a precompiled Fedora 6 kernel
>
> It appears to be pretty much impossible to build a liveCD that uses a
> wireless connection which is a shame because many of the aDSL bundles
> available now have a WiFi enabled box.
>
> Cheers
> Tony

FYI, I was able to connect to network using my old Orinoco Classic
Gold PC Card[1]
on Fedora LiveCD using iwconfig command for wireless configuration[2]

[1] http://www.proxim.com/products/wifi/client/goldpccard/index.html
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung/LiveCD

Regards
-- 
Thomas Chung
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung