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Name: cosmonaut
Date: April 22, 2006 at 08:40:15 Pacific
OS: Red Hat Fedora Core 4
CPU/Ram: 2.1 GB/1024 MB
Product: PC Laptops/Unkown
Comment:

Hello. I recently decided to abandon Windows and put Fedora Core 4 on my laptop. Unfortunetly, I now can't access the internet via my wireless PCMCIA card, and the only way I CAN access the internet is to sit in my boiler room and connect to the router directly.

My laptop is running Fedora Core 4, and is (to my knowledge) fully updated. I have one other computer (a laptop running Windows XP) that still works flawlessly with the connection.

The connection itself is Comcast Wireless Ethernet, the PCMCIA card is Comcast's special brand.

Any way I can get my wireless connection up and running again?

(By the way, money is no object.)



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Name: 3Dave
Date: April 24, 2006 at 01:17:19 Pacific
Reply:

You need to find out what chipset the comcast card is using and check for support:
http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Wireless.html
http://at76c503a.berlios.de/devices.html
"lspci" and "cat /proc/pci" may help you.

If there is no native GNU/Linux support you may be able to use driverloader or ndiswrapper and windoze drivers:
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List
http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/


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Response Number 2
Name: cosmonaut
Date: April 24, 2006 at 15:19:15 Pacific
Reply:

Alright, I'll try it later when I'm home.

Thank you for your help!


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