[arachne] Re: Wifi drivers from cisco

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On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 09:59 -0500, Glenn Gilbreath Jr. wrote:
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> Sam,
> 
> Could it be that USB thumb drives are supported by your Dell's BIOS, much 
> like diskette drives, and are independent of operating system?
> I have a Dell Inspiron 531S desktop, and Windows XP SP2 doesn't give the new 
> hardware found wizard just when accessing USB drives.
> Accessing the wireless network adapter more likely than not will need a 
> driver designed for that brand/model of card.
> Cisco models appear to be more supported by DOS drivers than other brands, 
> from what I've read...or brands that are very compatible.  Try accessing the 
> WiFi in FreeDOS on your Dell and see if you can get any DOS apps "online"     
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No, they are not supported automagically by the system's BIOS.

I have another hard drive for this system which is not currently
installed.  The other hard drive is for Windoze XP.  If I were to
install the other hard drive, the one for XP, the stupid "found new
hardware" wizard would run whenever I attach to it a thumb drive 
that has not been previously installed on this system. Sometimes 
the stupid wizard will run even if I attach a thumb drive that had 
already been installed before on the system.

Sam Heywood

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