On Monday 22 September 2008 08:39:29 am Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
ka1ifq skrev:
On Monday 22 September 2008 12:32:53 am Kai Ponte wrote:
My father-in-law's wife (my mother-in-law passed away some years ago) recently had me get her a new computer. She had a six-year-old system running expee that was ready to visit the recycle center.
I got her a new Dell system with freeDOS and promptly loaded openSUSE 10.3. Her only requirements were word processing, email (AOL) and eBay. However, we kept running into issues. The wifi (Linksys running ndiswrapper) will continually drop. They have Cox cable, who will NOT support Linux configuration. Also, her AOL mail will continually fail to pull all mail through thunderbird. (If this is related to the wifi dropping, I don't know.) Finally, after two months, I'm giving up. I'm going to install Vista on her system and pass her off to someone else who will support her. (She can use my laptop's copy of Vista Business, since I wiped it off over a year ago.)
Umm, if this is a desktop you could run an AP in client mode and the computer will not even know it's wireless, solved my problem before it started. Mike
- elaborate, please :-) Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard
I setup an AP in client mode, AP adds wireless to a router that is not wireless, in client mode it acts like a wireless card in your computer with one differance, it has a rj jack, you put a cable into your computer and it does not know the differance between a hard wire network and the AP in Client mode. I have done this with a Linksys WAP11 and a Buffalo WHR-G54S, the Buffalo is a wireless router and after it was setup allows me to use the switch part so I can have more than one device (4) plugged in, it also runs in Bridge mode so I extend my wireless for other wireless devices. The Buffalo was a better choice because at the time it was on sale with a mail in rebate, cost 1/3 the price of the WAP11. I think most AP's will do this, and probably a lot of the routers will you just have to check. Hope this helps as it saved me a lot of grief. Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org