Dapper and Edimax EW-7128g

[Miguel Azevedo]

Everyone wants to play safe, nowadays... Where is the thrill, the 
excitment of the unknown?
(yes, it is supported).

Toby Kelsey wrote:
> I would like to upgrade to Dapper but I need to avoid any possibility 
> of my home
> machine losing it's wireless internet access.
>
> In my experience of Linux install programs, they inevitably screw up your
> existing partitions or grub installation without asking.  So the safe 
> approach
> is to install Dapper on a separate partition without using a gui-fied 
> install
> program and add it to my existing grub menu, so I can test out the 
> install and
> network access before switching permanently.  However my attempts to 
> do this
> with debootstrap just lead to an error message I reported previously 
> ("Begin:
> Waiting for root file system") which has no apparent fix.
>
> It seems the upgrade methods chosen by Ubuntu do not allow me a safe 
> way of
> upgrading.
>
> The only way forward is to bite the bullet and install over my working 
> system.
> Before I do that I want to check whether my wireless hardware is known 
> to work
> with Dapper.  I have an Edimax EW-7128g (M code: EW-7122/8G) wireless 
> card,
> accessing a Linksys WRT54G router with upgraded firmware.  Is anyone 
> using
> Dapper successfully with this hardware?
>
> Toby
>


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Miguel A. Azevedo

Wireless Security Researcher
web : http://www.idssecurity.org
mail: miguel.azevedo at idssecurity.org

Castelo Branco - Portugal

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