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Hello guys, |
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Well I have decided to concentrate my efforts on my internal mini-pci |
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card, the Intel PRO2100 WiFi, instead of an external Atheros based |
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Netgear card. Part of the decision was based on the fact that my Dell |
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technician said that this card was superior in range to many cardbus |
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based devices. I didn't know that the card even existed in my system |
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until the tech came to my house. I thought I had declined it as an |
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option when I bought the laptop. Haha. It works well in Windows- once |
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I typed in the giant HEX key for WEP. |
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So I am wading through the Gentoo procedures required to get it working. |
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Fortunately there are ebuilds all set up for me. I will unmerge all |
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the Madwifi stuff. I will wait for Madwifi to mature before I try it |
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again. Retrieving distributions from CVS doesn't sound optimal for me. |
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I'm not that much of a computer genious, LOL. |
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One thing I want to do is to eliminate all of the configuration files |
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that went along with the Madwifi driver and any associated tools. I |
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think I saw in the emerge manual some ways to find out what those files |
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were, or perhaps it was the Gentoo tools. |
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Sincerely, Rob |
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