Re: wireless and kernel woes

From: John Summerfield (debian_at_ComputerDatasafe.com.au)
Date: 07/20/04

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    Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:

    >On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 12:16:42PM -0700, dbarker@turing.cs.camosun.bc.ca wrote:
    >|
    >| The situation: bought an Averatec notebook couple of weeks ago (AMD
    >| Athlon-M, 256K, builtint 10/100 and wireless, CDRW-DVD combo, etc)
    >
    >You don't say what wireless adapter this is or what driver you need.
    >I recommend a PCI or PCMCIA (not USB, yet) PrismGT-based adapter.
    >They use the prism54 driver, which is included in the kernel. I
    >wasn't able to get the first two adapters I bought to work, but the
    >third (a PrismGT) worked effortlessly.
    >
    >

    Actually _buying_ a prism54 card can be a challenge. I have a (PCI)
    SCMC2802W card that does _bot_ work, but the original does (and rates
    well). Similarly for dlink cards - I heard there are six different
    versions of one dlink card. 

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