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billbar

Member

Registered: 2004-02-14

Posts: 100

Wireless Frustation

Here's the environment:
Dell Inspiron 1721
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-57 1.90 GHz
Dell Wireless 1395 WLAN Mini-Card
OS:  Windows Vista Home Premium
    Mini-Card driver – Broadcom 10/12/2007, version 4.170.25.17
    Broadcom 44x 10/100 Integrated Controller driver – Broadcom, 11/21/2006, version 4.60.0.0
    Location:  PCI bus 3, device 0, function 0
        802.1p QOS  – disable
        Flow Control  – disable
        Speed & Duplex – auto
        Wake Up Capabilities – both
Wireless signal available from cable routed thru Netgear or Sprint USB 598 thru Cradlepoint CTR350.
I installed both routers and selected WPA/WP2 on the Netgear.  Not sure what Cradlepoint uses.
WindowsVista uses either signal.

I currently have Arch 32 and 64 installed which will connect only thru cable from either router.
A search for "Dell Inspiron 1721 wireless" in several forums turned up only 1 response from a Fedora user and he had a zero response question.
I have tried Mandriva, Mepis, Sabayon, Ubuntu, Fedora, PClinuxOS, Suse, Puppy, Knoppix, 32 and 64 bit, all with varying degrees of failure.
My computer is not a toy and I need Linux mobility since the road is my residence.  It disturbs me how nicely Microsoft handles this mobility and Linux developers spend their time on eye candy.  The only     laptop that I've seen to handle this out of the box is my Asus EEE. 

My hope is that someone has an answer to this dilemma.

Thanks for any support.

Bill

p.s. Notice how polite I have been in avoiding a rant?

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Wireless Frustation

Have you read, understood, and carried out the instructions on the wiki's Wireless Setup page?

wonder

Developer

From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: Wireless Frustation

usually in any linux distributions you find out what card whit what chipset you actually have by doing lscpi. then you start searching for that name.
hint:

lspci | grep -i network

after that check http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless

Last edited by wonder (2009-12-22 22:04:48)

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