[NTLK] 2100 Newbie Getting there slowly..

Hello everyone,

Right thanks to Frank from this mailing list, I very swiftly received a
purchased a 20mb pcmcia card with the wifi drivers and a web browser on it
and a few other bits and pieces.

I can report my Wifi card now works fine and I can browse the web, however
only with wep disabled, if I have it with WEP on and input the web key it
just drops out after 'Processing DHCP' - I imagine this is possibly because
the drivers Frank kindly put on the pcmcia card might be the original
shareware version which doesn't support wep and I think im right in saying
the original driver author has now released wep support for free.

Now I have downloaded this driver from his website however Its in SIT format
and I don't have a mac and none of the PC SIT decompressors I have
downloaded will open the damn archive!! I've re-downloaded it as well just
in case the download was corrupt.

My next plan was to use the Wifi on the Newt to download an FTP client and
then use that to install packages from an FTP server setup on my home
network, however for some reason despite the handwriting recognition being
fine in the rest of the newt for some reason it seems to be rubbish in
Courier, and I can't figure out how to use the on-screen keyboard in Courier
to input a url.

I managed to get onto Unna but despite the NewtFTP page displaying fine on a
PC when I click on it on the Newt I just get an Error and I cant access the
PKG file!! Grrrr.

Additionally I have a dongle now but no serial to Din cable, I popped along
to the local Maplin but they had nothing like it.

My home wifi is now running with WEP disabled but I have MAC address

Anyone any ideas on how to proceed and get some more stuff installed? I
understand Newtscape may be a better browser but I need to find a way to get
PKG's installed.

Regards
Leigh.

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Received on Wed Jul 9 15:49:58 2008