im using redhat 9 and i have a buffalo pcmcia wireless card. i want to get it going so i looked in my redhat bible book 1200pages thick and flipped to the wireless section and i tried everything in thier possible. so i then surfed the google.com site for the last 2 hrs trying to find what i can do to get the card up and running! yet the only thing i can find is sites referencing the wvlan or wavelan driver which will work with the buffalo card? ok so i search for internet for wvlan driver huh ? gez not found ? is it in the distro ? will any built in drivers work? this is the main reason people have trouble with linux is because hardware is not working properly with thier system! it can make things very difficult which is why people use M$ . Is their a site on the internet i can pay someone money to help me with linux questions? im more then willing to pay $$$$. :newbie: :Pengy:

The main reason people have trouble with Linux is because they don't look before they leap. Once upon a time, computers weren't point and click ala Macs/Windows. Linux is for those people who want to become more familiar with how their computer works, and want more precise control over how it operates. Lately, more user friendly interfaces have been developed to make Linux a point and click os as well, but there is no complete point and click install interface for Linux. No hardware manufacturers that I know of write pretty gui installers for their drivers under Linux, but nearly all do for Windows - get over it, its not the fault of the dedicated developers who work on Linux in their spare time, for *free*. There are plenty of people who will take your money, but why? If you want to pay for your os, buy Windows. Otherwise, read and learn how to set up things yourself. www.tldp.org is a very good place to start. The buffalo pcmcia card works just fine under Linux, in fact, I set one up myself once. You must have the pcmcia package installed - it comes with the wavelan driver already. Got to www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Wireless-HOWTO.html, and www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ for more or less step by step instructions on how to install your card. I will not repeat information already explained in great detail on those two pages. Jonathan