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I have no idea what her wireless card is or how to find out.
I really have no idea what I am doing. I tried messing around with rc.inet1.config and rc.wireless.config. I even went so far as downloading the wpa_suplicant package . . . but have no idea what to do with it.
I installed them following the instructions. They didn't work, so I checked out dmesg. It told me to install an earlier version. I did that.
The only thing different from today and yesterday is that the little LED for wireless shows up on her computer.
The truth is I have no idea what setup files I need to touch or what needs to be in them. From what I have found, I have to edit the rc.inet.config and wpa_supplicant.config file. I have found a few sites explaining what I need, but none of them seem to be working for me.
A copy of someone else's .config files would probably be very useful; especially if you're encrypting using AES.
I did a bit of searching, and the solutions I've seen for this device all centre around using ndiswrapper (that is, using the windows drivers through ndiswrapper). Is that what you're trying to do?
I started by downloading wpa_supplicant. I downloaded the firmware from the link I listed about. I think I can avoid the wrapper since there is firmware for Linux. Maybe I'm wrong.
I don't know to be honest - I'm trying to help since not many others are.
A suggestion for you though - I'd try and get the thing working without wpa (that's what wpa_supplicant is for, but I guess you know that), and once you get it working without, add the wpa in.
If you installed firmware, it should be in /lib/firmware. If it is, the card should be working now.
To configure connection edit /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf, should look like that:
Good sign, my Broadcom did the same, but worked /etc/rc.d/rc.wireless tries to set nickname on the interface - that can't be done by Broadcom driver and the result is in your posts. Don't worry about that. Please, post the output of
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