I am trying to get my Dell D600 laptop to connect wirelessly to my D-Link WBR
1310 router.
Which card to buy and which Linux version is easiest to do this?
I know many of you are running your laptops with wireless connection so I would
like you to tell me what you use and what you did to make it all happen.
Any ideas or help will be appreciated much.

--
Leon
A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard.
< running Linux >

On Friday 20 June 2008 18:02, someone who identifies as *Leon Whyte* wrote
in /comp.os.linux.hardware:/

> I am trying to get my Dell D600 laptop to connect wirelessly to my D-Link
> WBR 1310 router.
> Which card to buy and which Linux version is easiest to do this?
> I know many of you are running your laptops with wireless connection so I
> would like you to tell me what you use and what you did to make it all
> happen. Any ideas or help will be appreciated much.

Anything with an Atheros or Orinoco chipset will work with Linux. Some
stuff can also be made to work using the Windows-native driver and
the /ndiswrapper/ kernel module, but I have no real experience with either
to know whether all Windows-oriented wireless chipsets can be made to work
with /ndiswrapper./

As for what distribution, any recent enough distribution should perform well
enough. Mileage may and will vary. ;-)

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*Aragorn*
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)

Aragorn wrote:
> On Friday 20 June 2008 18:02, someone who identifies as *Leon Whyte* wrote
> in /comp.os.linux.hardware:/
>
>> I am trying to get my Dell D600 laptop to connect wirelessly to my D-Link
>> WBR 1310 router.
>> Which card to buy and which Linux version is easiest to do this?
>> I know many of you are running your laptops with wireless connection so I
>> would like you to tell me what you use and what you did to make it all
>> happen. Any ideas or help will be appreciated much.
>
> Anything with an Atheros or Orinoco chipset will work with Linux. Some
> stuff can also be made to work using the Windows-native driver and
> the /ndiswrapper/ kernel module, but I have no real experience with either
> to know whether all Windows-oriented wireless chipsets can be made to work
> with /ndiswrapper./
>
> As for what distribution, any recent enough distribution should perform well
> enough. Mileage may and will vary. ;-)
>
Thanks for your reply.
Now all I have to do is find how to determine the chipset of the ones being
marketed.


--
Leon
A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard.
< running Linux >

Leon Whyte <leon.whyte@gmail.com> wrote:
> Aragorn wrote:
>> On Friday 20 June 2008 18:02, someone who identifies as *Leon Whyte* wrote
>> in /comp.os.linux.hardware:/
>>
>>> I am trying to get my Dell D600 laptop to connect wirelessly to my D-Link
>>> WBR 1310 router.
>>> Which card to buy and which Linux version is easiest to do this?
>>> I know many of you are running your laptops with wireless connection so I
>>> would like you to tell me what you use and what you did to make it all
>>> happen. Any ideas or help will be appreciated much.
>>
>> Anything with an Atheros or Orinoco chipset will work with Linux. Some
>> stuff can also be made to work using the Windows-native driver and
>> the /ndiswrapper/ kernel module, but I have no real experience with either
>> to know whether all Windows-oriented wireless chipsets can be made to work
>> with /ndiswrapper./
>>
>> As for what distribution, any recent enough distribution should perform well
>> enough. Mileage may and will vary. ;-)
>>
> Thanks for your reply.
> Now all I have to do is find how to determine the chipset of the ones being
> marketed.

Good luck. They regularly change the chips without changing the model
number. If you're lucky they might change the version number.

BTW if you're open to a USB solution, look for one using the Zydas
zd1211 or zd1211b chipset. Kernels since about 2.6.20 or so have the
zd1211rw driver which works well. Airlink AWLL3026 is one.

Jerry