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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Robert Steinmetz wrote:

> 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.

It's a Bromax 10 baseT.  I'm sure it works, since I previously had it
working with BL2 (prior to a crash that pretty much hosed the
installation).  I got it on ebay for under $7.  The wireless card is one I
borrowed from the library here - an old Wavelan bronze.

> 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.

I suppose booting with one of the "stock" Slack kernels (net.i?) might be
another option.  That's what I did under BL2 when I was experimenting with
that wireless card earlier.  I never quite got it to work, though - don't
recall many particulars.  I did have a wvlan0 when I ran ifconfig, but was
having trouble making a dhcp request through it, I think.

James