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Robert Steinmetz wrote:
> 
> What about support for notebooks, PCMCIA and Wireless?
 
To which James Miller replied:
>
> Steven is talking about adding some PCMCIA bits to BL3, 

I will get on to that as soon as the base distribution is
bedded down.  I'm hoping that 3.02 will be a keeper (but
I thought the same about 3.01 when it went out a week ago).

> Wireless would be nice, and I do have a card I can experiment 
> with, but I don't know if Steven considers it any kind of 
> priority.

I work by trial and error.  Since I have no wireless gear,
there is no way for me to develop anything in that area.
However, isn't a wireless card just another PCMCIA card?
Put it in, cardmgr looks for it in the database and starts
the appropriate module.  I suppose the real question is:
whether it is worth the space to have wireless modules in
the basic filesystem.  If they are big, then the answer is 
probably no.  And a practical point:  does Slackware 7.1 
actually have any useful wireless modules?  Remember we are 
relying on Slack71 to provide modules for the kernel.

Cheers,
Steven