Re: Hardware for a Presario with Linux support
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On Monday 07 Oct 2002 2:23 pm, Vicente Aguilar wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> I've got a Compaq Presario 905 and I'm planning on buying a wireless
> network card and a webcam for it, and of course, I want them to work
> with Linux. I'm running Debian Woody and the latest stable kernel from
> kernel.org.
>
> The laptop has an expansion slot on the back of the screen, i.e., on the
> top of the cover when you close it. This expansion slot can be used for
> small devices like an internal microphone or a wireless card. I don't
> know the technical details about this expansion system, I think that
> internally it has to be a PCI or PCMCIA bus, but I really don't know it
> for sure. As the laptop has only one PCMCIA slot, I'd like to have an
> internal card installed on that screen-expansion slot, but I don't know
> if it is supported in Linux. Anybody else with a Presario laptop has had
> any experiences with these kind of expansion system?
I have no idea what sort of expansion you have, but with regards to a PCMCIA
wireless card, i use the Netgear MA401 and it works a charm (cheap too).
Tom
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