OOOohhh. That is helpful! thank you both!

I knew there had to be a way

Okay here I go....

BRB!

lspci -vnn gives me about 3 pages of information... I ask again...what magic wand does one have to wave to get copy and paste to work in the terminal? i saw my device listed in the mass of data...nothing in it was akin to an error message...it was 6 or 7 long lines of code I am happy to repost here ...

ive always had lots of luck with this adapter. before now.... ok from the top. lsusb lists nothing. I have no usb hardware present on my machine. lsmod lists lots of stuff, none of which looks like my driver. I would have been happy to copy the list and paste it into a text file, but copy does not s...

ok good idea let me try that!

bear with me i will return in a moment...

its not a usb tho....

its a NIC.

is there a different ls command for a NIC?

I also used the command line too. Im no stranger to the command line. I tried ndiswrapper -i /root/spot/Downloads/wg311v3_ndis/WG311v3.INF i -r the whole thing and tried to -i /path/to/wg311v3.inf instead. then i ndiswrapper -r path/to/wg311v3.inf and then again ndiswrapper -i path/to/WG311v3.INF I ...

in fat dog, if one right clicks on the swirly/not swirly B&W icon thing, it gives you options. left clicking simply opens the scanner and adapter selector dialog, but right clicking gives one options. One of those options is "Network Wizard" it looks like the 'Classic Network wizard' e...

ok I loaded the kernel source SFS too...now both the kernel source and the DEVX are loaded at every boot. when I load the wrapper now I get the following. first, the unhelpful little blank box which says nothing has been replaced by a box which seems much more helpful and is actually a box I recogni...

perhaps that is what I am missing eh? Kernel source? Let me try that--still not having tons of luck.

BRB!

and to answer your question, YES SIR I DO understand the difference between wg311v3 and WG311v3 in LINUX. I may have typed it wrong, but if I did, I am more likely to have typed QF2``c2 than I am to have mistakenly substituted wg311v3 for WG311v3. I have already learned THAT lesson, and how! :D I wi...

Is it not swirly?...i really cannot see and am switching back and forth across the vast expanses of the house between 2 different computers--one runs Lucid on a hard LAN wire and the other runs Fatdog wirelessly-someday on the other side of the house. For reference I was of course referring to memor...

No sir, that is NOT what I did. I right clicked on the swirly looking B&W networking icon on the taskbar by the clock and I used the networking wizard with the X-dialog-ish prompts. I shall now try typing ndiswrapper -i /path/to/infile.inf in the command line! Thank you very much! I will be back...

Yeah Ted Dog, I actually popped over to that thread you mention and read a bit about what is being done---one button machines, huh? that is an insanely awesome project you guys have going on over there! It illustrates exactly what I was saying about one size fitting many... the "One Button"...

smokey01, maybe I did it wrong (I do not believe I did--I have used ndis wrapper many times in the past) but it still does the very same thing. I load the (new 64bit thank you!) INF driver and i get the same, unhelpful little box which tells me nothing as before. The operation is identical even afte...

that makes two of us, benny7440. 1) Why the association of emacs &/or xemacs with gnuplot? What it signifies? emacs and or xemacs are text editors used to by gnuplot. There was an update to emacs recently... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs ...perhaps that is what it signifies? Perhaps they wa...

I love this place! I can hardly step away and turn around before someone else come along willing and wanting to help, and one more obstacle gets overcome. Its like one great big creative playground. :D jamesbond, anything you can do would be terrific! Good luck and keep us posted! I will anxiously a...

smokey01 you are awesome! Thank you this will be very helpful and necessary if I am to get FatDog set up properly. Drivers can be so touchy...

I will give this a shot and report back on my results. thank you again:D!

Cheers! Nice one!

Hi there! I posted this in another part of the forum but was instructed to repost it here...I suspect that the ndiswrapper may have been left out of fatdog64-621...

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=86559

Any help or advice would be appreciated!

thank you Keef! I may or may not be keeping this fatdog...the jury is still out. if I end up keeping it, I will need the NDIS wrapper, but if I do not, ..... ...well then I suppose i am leaving a big hole in fatdog for some other poor schmo like myself to find at their own peril, arent I? that proba...

Yeah it does actually. it says..

FATAL: ndiswrapper not found

SO I guess I am the guy pointing it out this time round, eh?

nice!

what can I do about that Keef?