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mpitalian

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March 6th, 2004 00:00

Dell TrueMobile 1300 with Gentoo Linux and 2.6.3 Kernel

Hello all, I have read some posts about people being able to get their dell truemobile wireless cards to work with Linux. Unfortunately for me, I have tried both the ndiswrapper and the linuxant ways of trying to get the wireless card to work, but nothing. The ndiswrapper returns false information about signal stregnth and cannot get an IP address from a DHCP server, and the linuxant driver does not even pick up the card at all. If anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated. Or if anyone else even knows where I can buy a compatible mini-pci card to swap out this one with a new one.

Thank you all ahead of time for the help!!
MPItalian

mattcowger

2.6K Posts

March 6th, 2004 02:00

The Atheros chipset cards eork well with MadWifi (i have of of these). Also, the Senao based cards available from netgate.com are EXTREMELY powerful and linux friendly.

Mandrake99

139 Posts

March 7th, 2004 06:00

What system are you using? I have the Inspiron 5100 using the truemobile 1300 dual booting between Windows XP Pro and Mandrake Linux 9.2. I too tried the NDISWrapper which is a piece, but I installed the Linuxant Driverloader and it works flawlessly if you follow the directions listed on the web site. ??? Rebooted went in configured the linux system to use DHCP and bam i was connected. Maybe a gentoo problem, by the way I'm using the stock Kernel in Mandrake.

mpitalian

2 Posts

March 8th, 2004 01:00

i am not using dual boot, just have gentoo on it. the linux distrobution shouldnt really have anything to do with it, i have installed all the necessary tools that any other distro has. i am wondering if it is ithe kernel, oh well, i may just buy another one being i dont really have time lol.. college and work ... goin nuts as it is. Thanks for the replies though!!

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