Quote Originally Posted by pureone
grant do you use wpa ? or no encryption at all? i wouldnt like to use no encryption at all. i have managed to get wireless cards working with no wep at all but thats not what i want so i have just stuck to ethernet untill theres better support for wireless cards with in the kernel.

the card i have made my attempts on i belive was F5D6001 but not 100% sure i could never get the driver files that the ndiswrapper site recomends so that could be one of the main reasons for no luck with it yet.
Pureone:

Currently, I do not use encryption at all, although that is about to change, once I have time to play -- sometime soon -- hopefully. [Anyone who attempts to write a Ph. D. with a family is mad! Ergo I am mad.]

However, how I do wireless at home has altered since I first started using GNU/Linux. So using encryption won't be via my Belkin cards and ndiswrapper.

A while ago I decided the easiest/best (although not the cheapest) way to connect all my computers which run M$ XP and GNU/Linux was to use two wireless routers connected via WDS. This means that all my computers are wired, but linked wirelessly (if you understand). I.e. upstairs I have my GNU/Linux box and M$ laptop connected to a router (#2), and this is wirelessly connected to another router (#1) downstairs which connects to the internet and another M$ box (for playing games). It functions well.

All the Linux Distros I have tried just "work" under the arrangement since the wireless side is taken care of by the routers and Linux is perfectly at home in a wired ethernet world

Hope that answers you question ...

Grant V.