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[Robert Steinmetz <rob AT steinmetznet.com>]

James Miller wrote:

> I've just been asking about that, since I've got an old notebook that
> needs resurrecting. 
Same here I'd like to create a portable wireless internet station,  I 
have 4 old notebooks which I'd like to use, I have wireless cards for 
all of them.

> Steven is talking about adding some PCMCIA bits to BL3, along with a few 
> common NIC modules, and creating a script to give
> some PCMCIA networking functionality.  
This should be relatively easy. Just standard bits of Slackware, the 
slackware PCMCIA package includes several network cards. Some trimming 
could probably be done to limit disk usage.

> Sounds great.  I don't know how
> much I can contribute - I can offer to do at least some testing with my
> notebook, but time constraints will prevent me from doing much and will
> make my contributions intermittent.
What kind of card do you have? You also should check to see if it is 
compatible with your old notebook. I find all of my old notebooks 
require 5 volt cards and they are difficult to come by now. It won't fit 
in the slot if it's the wrong voltage.

> 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 can look into at getting the wireless extensions compiled, as soon as 
Steven says BL3 is ready, and if the kernel has the required option, 
otherwise a special kernel will have to be built.

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