Two NICs for the price of one?

[SteVe Cook]

gary hypes wrote:
> I spent a couple of weeks of exasperation trying to get my dual-boot 
> WinXP/Ubuntu 6.10 system trying to recognize my Netgear WG311T wireless 
> adapter, with no luck -- the XP side saw the card immediately, Ubuntu 
> wouldn't recognize it at all. It tried modprobe ath_pci, I played with 
> ndiswrapper (never did figure it out), tried the card in a different 
> slot, nothing.
> 
> Then, on a whim, I tried my son's Netgear 54MBPS USB wireless adapter, 
> and voila! the system saw the device immediately.
> 
> Now, to the next hurdle: in the network configuration manager, two 
> devices pop up: one is clearly the USB adapter, but it also sees a 
> device that it interprets to be a modem, even though there is no modem 
> attached. Under "properties" it is clearly referring to a dial-up modem. 
> Could it possibly be seeing the wireless router that the adapter is 
> broadcasting to, and interpreting that as a modem?
> 
> -- 
> Gary Hypes
> 
> "Everything I know I learned at http://www.coasttocoastam.com"
> 
For some reason ubuntu always shows a modem in the network configuration 
manager, whether one is present or not.


SteVe