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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Tim,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks for pointing out the madwifi
driver, but unfortunately the driver doesn’t support the specific Atheros
chipset in this card. Guess I will be going out and getting a different card.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I also tried ndiswrapper with the driver
off of D-Link’s website but that just caused the kernel to crash hard on
boot.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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cialug-bounces@cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces@cialug.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Tim Wilson<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, September 21, 2007
12:56 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Central Iowa Linux Users Group<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Cialug] What is a
good distro for an older laptop</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I couldn't find the DWL-G650M on <a
href="http://madwifi.org">madwifi.org</a>, but I did find the DWL-G650. I
don't know if these would be similar enough to be able to use the madwifi
drivers.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span class=gmailquote><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 9/21/07, <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>John Lengeling</span></b> <<a
href="mailto:John.Lengeling@radisys.com">John.Lengeling@radisys.com</a>>
wrote:</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Well I got Xubuntu installed after resolving a couple of
problems. The<br>
first problem is that the machine had a PCCARD cdrom drive which I could<br>
use to boot, but when the kernel came up it was not detected. So I <br>
plugged in a USB CDROM drive which wasn't bootable from BIOS but was<br>
detected by the kernel. I booted off the PCCARD CDROM, then quickly<br>
moved the CD to the USB CDROM as soon as the kernel booted. Amazing
it <br>
worked and started loading Xubuntu and the install program worked.<br>
<br>
The second problem occurred when the installer was making the root<br>
filesystem. It kept getting an error and the debug console showed
that<br>
it was trying to access beyond the end of the disk. So instead of<br>
using the entire disk for the partition, I made the partition about 25M<br>
smaller. Guess the BIOS was reporting the wrong size for the disk<br>
drive. <br>
<br>
Now I am trying to get a D-Link DWL-G650M Wireless PCCARD working.
How<br>
do I setup this card? I can see the card via "lspci -v
-nn" but I<br>
haven't found out what next to do.<br>
<br>
johnl<br>
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