Re: List of laptop (pcmcia) wirelss network cards

From: Jeff Vian (jvian10_at_charter.net)
Date: 08/25/04

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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:49:53 -0500

    On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 14:15, TroyGeek wrote:
    > There's always a debate as to whether to buy or build (get it working on
    > your own) when it comes to software. As i've already spent over 10 hours
    > just trying to get a wireless card to work with no avail, there comes a
    > time when you have to decide whether you want to spend many more hours
    > trying to get this to work or to buy. Not everyone has ample time to sit
    > and try to get device drivers working, but yes I always try to search
    > the web and mailing lists when I have trouble. However, when all the
    > options found on the Internet for getting this to work are exhaughted,
    > paying a little money to fix the problem and saving potentially hours of
    > more work which I don't have seems like a viable option. Giving up on
    > using Linux because I haven't been able to get a wireless card working
    > yet wasn't the route I wanted to go in.
    >

    If your laptop has one of the wireless adapters that has no linux
    drivers you AFAIK have 2 options to get it working.

    driverloader at Linuxant.com (about $20)

    or ndiswrapper from ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net (free)

    HTH
    Jeff 

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