Re: [NTLK] wifi woes

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Wed May 11 2005 - 12:33:57 PDT


stephen o'reilly wrote:
> I just purchased a lucent gold card for my newton to get it on my home
> network. I'm using Linux and have a test webpage running on my main computer
> which I can reach via my ad-hoc wireless setup. WEP is currently disabled
> until I get this up and running and receive my reg code for the lucent card
> in the newton. The other two wireless nics are of the 802.11g variety,
> although from what I'm reading, that shouldnt matter.
<snip>
>
> Any ideas where I'm going wrong?

If the rest of your network is 802.11g, are you sure that it's configured to
allow slower cards onto the network? Running both B and G cards on one
wireless net is called "mixed mode", if you had a router it would be a setting
  in there.

What Linux distribution are you using?

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