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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

> This is a 'b' 2.4GHz 11Mbit - we were told this is the slowest.  Do 
> we need a newer card?  Would 2.2.16 support something that is still 
> compatible with other hardware?  The b's are cheaper at ebay.

2.2.16 can't even handle 802.11b wireless cards IIRC.

> > Why not? A winmodem doesn't take up a COM port.
> 
> Windows found it in Com3.

Serial port emulation, no doubt.

> It also says it is X2 so I suspect we now have a 33K winmodem.

For "real" winmodems, the speed is affected by the driver which is
used.

> We passed along a Mac laptop 
> with 56K PCMCIA modem to a neighbor who may not be using the modem 
> - are Mac modems hardware style?

The only thing Mac-specific on modern Macintoshes are the CPU and
motherboard. Modern Macs have PCI slots, take IDE drives, and the
standard PC-style RAM.

> I should have expected the X2 
> since it is a 1997 computer, the year they had three 56K standards 
> battling it out.

My hardware modem came from '98, it was originally X2 but I upgraded
it to v.90 with a flash utility.

> I make lots of typos, none quite as much fun as the degrees centipede.

A thermometer with hundreds of legs?

> Is cardmgr not a program with library dependencies?

I forgot about that. You probably just need libc5 and ld.

A better question would be, "why don't you just use pcmcia.tgz"?

> We were thinking of putting on BL3 anyway to use with dosemu since 
> the later version was not working last we checked (no A or S in 
> CLI).

Have you gotten dosemu to work?

> Do we need to worry about firewall stuff if someone else has set up 
> the DSL line properly?

No. You're not running any servers, are you?

> I don't recall if Steven added a wireless section to the pcmcia 
> setup. Perhaps if not, he could post at his site an expanded file 
> containing that and what I got working for the pcmcia CF adaptor 
> (the generic version, not the manuf specific one).  Was there 
> something specific needed from the BL3 kernel to do PCMCIA?  Would 
> BL2 kernel also work?  Could I compile a 2.2.16 that would work and 
> also do wireless ethernet?  (Once I fix my symlinks).

I think PCI support was all that was needed in the older kernels for
PCMCIA, since the modules came in a separate package.

David

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