[LBo] nework connection of linux box through windows machine

[Geoff Jones]

On Sunday 24 February 2008  "David Roseman" <toxote77 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi anita, i had ubuntu, but never got a connection, even tho it seemed
> to be installed with ndiswrapper. Am going to poss try a diff distro,
> slackware maybe.

Hi David,
Was wondering what wifi card you have?

I have an old amd duron800 box that i use to "test" different distros.
It has an air-plus D-Link card [- which is an "atheros" chip + runs with 
the "madwifi" driver].
Using Debian, Ubuntu and Slackware, I have had to install and configure 
madwifi myself to get the card working.

However, I recently tried PCLinuxOs and this seemed to recognise the wifi card 
on installation of PCLinuxOs and [ if I remember correctly ] installed a 
driver using ndiswrapper. Certainly, this was the first distro where the wifi 
worked "out of the box" - I was quite impressed!
HTH,
Geoff.