From: TJ@noneofyour.business   
      
   On 05/27/2012 09:20 PM, Adam wrote:   
      
   >   
   > Also, since I know your specialty is networking (isn't it?), I have a   
   > wi-fi question. As I've mentioned, when I (eventually) get the new   
   > system, this one (eris) is going to get moved to the other room and be   
   > connected via Wi-Fi. During retread's brief life here, I was able to get   
   > its wi-fi working under some distros but not under others. My question   
   > is, how can I find out whether any particular distro could be set up for   
   > working wi-fi without excessive headaches? I can put my PCI wi-fi card   
   > into eris, but I gather eris will still need the wired connection to the   
   > router so I can configure the router as well as the distro in question.   
   > How can I manage that? IOW is it possible to have both wired and   
   > wireless 'net access from the same box? (Am I making sense?) What would   
   > be good places to learn more about this?   
   >   
   Not my specialty, but perhaps my experience will help. If you just want   
   the potential to use either wired or wireless, but not both at the same   
   time, that's easy enough. I did that with the Dell computer I, um,   
   inherited last winter. I set it up as wired with Mageia 1, then shopped   
   for and bought a usb dongle wireless adapter, so I could eventually move   
   it to another room. For a while there, while I was testing things, I had   
   both connections available. I had one set up to be made at boot, and if   
   I wanted to use the other I right-clicked on the connection icon,   
   changed the active interface, and it would switch.   
      
   In your case, the configuring procedure would depend on the distro you   
   settle on.   
      
   But if you want both at the same time, I can't help. Never tried that.   
      
   TJ   
      
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