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[Advent Systems]

Thanks Tim.

Bob Randal

Timothy J. Finucane wrote:

>The book is worth purchasing as it covers many linux wireless topics. I
>haven't read it cover to cover but I've browsed through and foun several
>chapters I might go back to later.
>
>The best place I found to get an Orinoco Gold card was on e-bay. 
>
>And 9.1 was positively worth it. There was only one thing I didn't like.
>They have dumped Apache 1.x in favor of 2.x. I had to redo all of my
>local settings after the upgrade because I have several local
>development web sites. I prefered 1.x because it is 1)stable and 2) what
>is on my hosting providers platform. I think you can put Apache 1.x back
>on manually, but you can't use Yast2 to interact with it.
>
>On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 18:49, Advent Systems wrote:
>  
>
>>Tim,
>>    Thanks for the info. 
>>    Is the book worth purchasing or did it just help you with this 
>>particular wireless problem?  Where did you get your card?  Was the 
>>upgrade to 9.1 worth it, besides the wireless issues?
>>
>>Thanks again,
>>Bob Randal
>>
>>Timothy J. Finucane wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Bob,
>>>
>>>I did try the Linuxant "driver/wrappers" but I also had problems with
>>>them on Suse. I did use Suse 8.2 and 9.0 prior to using 9.1. I could not
>>>get the built in wireless to work on any of them. The built in wireless
>>>is a USB Prism 2 and I read plenty of articles by people who were able
>>>to get them to work, but I had no luck. After many headaches I bought
>>>O'Reilly's new Lnux Unwired book and found my solution. The resolution
>>>to the problem was investing in a good Orinoco Gold Card. It was well
>>>worth the investment because it worked immediately using the Yast2
>>>network card configuration. No headaches! I've been happily wireless
>>>ever since.
>>>
>>>Tim Finucane
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>