[geeks] bridging networks with wireless

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 @ 09:51 -0400, Nadine said:

> I also have a Hawking pci 802.11g card in my Wintendo box, and it
> works fine.  Of course, I used Hawking's utilities to manage it's
> connection to our wireless network, since 'doze is utterly stupid
> about SID's not being broadcast.  It "just works" under Windows with
> the manufacturer's utilities.

Quite a few cards I've tried seem to have a hard time holding a link for
very long.  Also, when they do have trouble, they often appear to go
dead and only a power cycle revives them.

Very frustrating.

Also odd is how the manufacturers seem to go out of their way to
hide the chipsets used in the cards.

Anyone know what is up with that?

> live CD.  And, I learned yet another lesson about 'doze in the
> process--NTFS partitions have to have the bootable flag set, even if
> they are not boot partitions, otherwise they are not recognized as
> mountable.  Definitely not what you call intuitive.

Ouch.

It's also pretty stupid. That is an abuse of the purpose of that flag.


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