null Posted May 17, 2005 Report Share Posted May 17, 2005 I already have a wireless router, and my FC3 box, my win2k box and my wife's windoze machine are all wired to it. My wife's college daughter is down the hall with a winXP machine with wireless internet. I want to make my FC3 box wireless also. Is it just a matter of buying a wireless card, and then FC3 will automatically get everything going.. (I can only hope)... or are more steps needed? I'm gonna make my win2k box wireless also, but I guess I'll just ask about the linux box here... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthur Posted May 17, 2005 Report Share Posted May 17, 2005 you can buy any wireless card, and use ndiswrapper to use the windows drivers, or you can buy chipsets which offer linux drivers. I personally use an Edimax with a RAlink chipset, they've released the drivers under GPL, and you can get it at their site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null Posted May 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2005 thanks, I've never had wireless internet before, so I wasn't sure how complicated it all was. When I called my internet provider (which is also a hardware/repair shop) they asked me if I was interested in a wireless card, or usb... Guess I'll pick up a wireless card for my win2k box and one for my FC3 box, and go from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted May 17, 2005 Report Share Posted May 17, 2005 Netgear WG511 is the wireless card I use on my fedora/centos laptop. prism54.org It wont "just" work, but it is easy to get it to work imo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted May 17, 2005 Report Share Posted May 17, 2005 if its possible to get an individual intel wireless card, you should be able to find one that works with the awesome ipw2100 or ipw2200 drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted May 18, 2005 Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 if its possible to get an individual intel wireless card, you should be able to find one that works with the awesome ipw2100 or ipw2200 drivers. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yep, and since you use fedora, freshrpms I know has the rpms for those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null Posted May 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 I just picked up a usb wireless adapter today for my win2k box. Installed the driver CD, plugged the usb thingie into the back of my machine, and wireless internet worked great right off the bat. can't be any easier. The one I bought was a Netgear 54Mbps WG111. Would like to get the same usb adapter for my FC3 machine, unless it would be a problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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