Re: WLAN-Card for DELL Inspiron 8100
I remember seeing that the Dell wireless adapter uses the aironet
4800/4500 adapter. It is supposed to be supported and should work
although I haven't tried it myself.
I have a Cisco aironet 352 which uses the same driver and that works
fine!
Fish
On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 12:31, Karsten Rothemund wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> my Dell Inspiron is running better and better under Linux (Debian)[1].
> Now I beginn to think about a WLAN-card, because the University of
> Rostock has installed a WLAN-network in most of its buildings. The
> problem is, I don't know, if the WLAN-card Dell offers is running with
> Linux.
>
> In fact they offer(ed) two variants:
>
> 1. a usual PCMCIA-card. This will work - I think - as good as every
> other card (and therefor I can take any other of these cards)
>
> 2. The Laptop has a builtin antenna for WLAN (this makes this solution
> look so sexy) which will work with a special DELL-WLAN-card (not so
> sexy). As far as I know, this card has to be installed into the laptop
> (so, maybe it is too late anyway). But I don't know anything about
> this card. Anyone with more information here?
>
> Thanx for any help,
>
>
>
> [1] a report on my journey through Linux-Djungle can soon be found under
> http://www-ae.e-technik.uni-rostock.de/home/karo/I8100-Installation.de.html
> (unfortunately only in german language up to now)
> --
>
> Karsten Rothemund,
> Institut f. Allgemeine Elektrotechnik, Universitaet Rostock
> Tel.: +49 (0)381 498 3649
> E-Mail: karsten.rothemund@etechnik.uni-rostock.de
> (PGP- and GnuPG-Key available on my HomePage:
> http://www-ae.e-technik.uni-rostock.de/home/karo/)
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