Wireless Dlink Card, Mandrake 9.1 question

[grogk]

so..........I have mandrake 9.1 working fine with my dlink dwl 650 card. It works great on my home SSID network. Of course, I am one of those geeks that travel around to public WLANs and to the office. I need to change my SSID and for the life of me cannot figure out once I entered my home SSID once where it shows up again to change. Help??

Thanks

Grogk

 

[clonny2]

Try using the network config program. I am a RedHat user, but the idea is the same. You may also not need to setup an SSID. I leave mine as default which roams. So at home I have 1 and at work I have another. It works fine. However, in both places the security is MAC based.

>---------------------------------------Lawrence Feldman
SR. QA. Engineer SNAP Appliance
lfeldman@snapappliance.com

 

[grogk]

Thanks for the input Clonny2. It turns out you were correct, the current default driver for this card is autodetecting SSID's. The problem was different than I originally thought. In order to log on to tmobile at Starbucks et al, you need your browser to autodetect the proxy. While that was set correctly to the best of my knowledge, it was not working. By entering the manual address for the logon gateway, it authenticated me and works like a charm. I am an IT Decision maker and feel that Linux on the desktop is the next major financial decision. It is nice to use it way in advance and realize that with ManDrake, it is not that painful. I will continue to tweak the browser settings on Konquerer and see if I can get it to properly autodetect the proxy.

Grogk

 

[clonny2]

grogk, if you still need to run certain windows apps like Outlook, Office, etc then look at

http://www.codeweavers.com.

Pretty nice. It is built on wine technology, so you can run those programs natively on linux. However, M$ Project does not work. That is one area that linux is really behind on.

>---------------------------------------Lawrence Feldman
SR. QA. Engineer SNAP Appliance
lfeldman@snapappliance.com