On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 12:11 +0100, Dani Belz wrote: > On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 01:57:45 -0800 (PST) > Olive Esseret <olive_esseret@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I consider to purchase a wireless PCMCIA network card > > for my laptop (toshiba Satellite A40-261). On the box, > > the supported OS are only Win.... Does they cards > > generally work on Linux? Do I need to pay special > > attention on the card I will purchase? A friend of me > > has tell me that these cards are fairly standard and > > should run out of the box, is it true? > > Hi! > > Hm... Not quite sure if he's right. Most of them work but "out of the > box"? I got a Netgear WG511 and it works like a charm. But I had to > patch the kernel to get support for the prism chipset > (http://prism54.org). And I had to get the firmware and make it load via > hotplug. Took me some time to set up but there was a good tutorial on > the site. > > grZ > Dani I've also got 2 of these cards, once it was up and running it was fanastic, the only issue i had with it not running was the router. So its highly recommended Cheers -- +------------------------------------------------------+ | -Glyn Tebbutt | | http://homepage.ntlworld.com/d3c3it/d3c3it.gpg | | "Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. | | The lesson is, never try." - Homer J Simpson | +------------------------------------------------------+
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