From: TJ@noneofyour.business   
      
   On 07/17/2012 10:34 AM, Adam wrote:   
   > TJ wrote:   
   >> On 07/14/2012 11:09 PM, Adam wrote:   
   >>> I just   
   >>> installed Mageia 2 on it, and that's running but I haven't yet gotten   
   >>> the Wi-Fi working there.   
   >>>   
   >> So far I've set up two wifi devices with Mageia 2. [...]   
   >> The other, a USB device using a Realtec 8192CU chip, didn't work   
   >> correctly until I used KDE plasma applet for Gnome's networkmanager to   
   >> set up the connection. Word is that some chipsets/drivers work better   
   >> with one, some with the other for as yet undetermined reasons, so when   
   >> you get to setting things up, if one doesn't work, try the other.   
   >   
   > Thanks for the suggestion, TJ!  However, I tried both MCC and (AFAICT)   
   > the plasma applet, both the Linux driver and the Windows XP driver with   
   > ndiswrapper, both Mageia's own /etc/hosts file and mine (Mageia insists   
   > on putting "127.0.0.1 eris.aplomb.invalid eris" at the top of   
   > /etc/hosts), and so far nothing has worked.  I'm temporarily stumped,   
   > but fortunately that's a test system.  Last night I also installed   
   > Fedora 17 on it, and got the wireless network working right away using   
   > their standard GUI setup tool.  If I want to get into this further, I   
   > think it would be a question for the Mageia group.   
   >   
   The Mageia Forum ( https://forums.mageia.org/en/ ) is another great   
   resource. Look under "Basic Support" for the "Networking" sub-forum.   
   There's a number of folks there with vast knowledge of Mageia's   
   idiosyncrasies.   
      
   TJ   
      
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