Re: wireless and kernel woes

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

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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John

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