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["Sheldon Isaac" <sisaac AT netaxs.com>]

Please excuse, have been away from Linux for months.  Help, please.

Niece wanted a wi-fi card for laptop. I bought a WaveBuddy PCMCIA card, 
then an old laptop to try it in. Worked in Windows98 with the supplied 
driver, so I bought another card for her.

Now I've put BL 3.21 on that laptop, and have not been able to have it 
work with that card.

dmesg doesn't mention it.

cardmgr says:

-------------
initializing socket 1
unsupported card in socket 1
   product info: "11WAVE", ""11WP611AL-E"
   function: 6 (network)
-------------

The instructions in  
Z:\WLAN Card & Adapter\Drivers\Linux\ReadMe.pdf   
say to add some stuff to a  /scripts/atmel.conf  file, including 

-----------------
card "bla bla"
  version "bla", "blah"
  bind "pcmf502re"
-----------------

They "assume" Red Hat 7.3 or above, and say ' .. other distro, most of 
this will still apply.'

They say to  bunzip2  a  .tar.bz2  file, and then there's a lot of stuff 
about  makefile etc.  Which I don't understand.

Can I just get a ready to use module from somewhere!!???

Or use some other driver?

I will be glad to send the ReadMe.pdf and the 
atmelwlandriver.2.1.1.tar.bz2

I have searched for many hours for info and for a precompiled module

Someone mentioned an ndiswrapper from sourceforge, to use with a Windows 
driver?  That also requires compiling or some such activity.

Many thanks,

Sheldon Isaac