[wplug] wireless card on debian

Rob Knapp myddrin at myddrin.com
Tue May 31 14:25:15 EDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 11:17 -0700, Steve Bierly wrote:
> I want to get my new debian pc on the Internet but am
> not sure if it will work. I need to use a wireless
> network card for my DSL connection there is currently
> three computers being used by the router. So I don't
> want to mess anything up. Does anyone have any
> experience with a wireless card and Debian. If that is
> impossible what would I need to do to have my windows
> pc share its connection with the debian computer. 

I've not done anything with wireless on debian, but I have on fedora.

It's actually pretty straight forward.  Find drivers for the device (I
use madwifi for my atheros card), compile and then configure (there
should be directions with the drivers source code).



> Thanks,
> Steve
> 
> 
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