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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] a very strange laptop
  • Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 22:48:36 +0000 (UTC)

On Wed, 11 May 2005, David Moberg wrote:

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

Do I try bare.i from SW81 instead, or is there a specific wireless
ethernet SW81 kernel? (I should eventually compile my own, of
course).

I don't know if SW supports wireless. I doubt it. This question is
best asked of a Slackware expert.

Someone at linuxquestions.org described in detail how to use a 'b' PCI wireless ethernet card in SW9 and others used them in SW10. I also found one report of using an 8-bit ISA wireless ethernet card with SW3.5, by someone who wrote his own driver. So I presume it can also be done for BL2 and BL3 if we write our own drivers (modules, and recompile the kernel to work with them?). When you perfect Mplayer you can try it yourself.

Luckily someone sent me copies of SW8 and 9 so I could try one of their kernels instead. I would need to figure out which module is needed and find a kernel to support it (or perhaps compile my own - can I compile for a later kernel with BL2?). Next winter perhaps after I get the matrox kernel figured out.

Which module is needed by linksys cards?

The SW81 bare.i kernel is CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y and also supports:
strip, wavelan, arlan, aironet4500 (not ISA or I365), airo, hermes, plx_hermes, and CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS=y

Do I also need something for WAN? The WIndows software had something about that. bare.i has CONFIG_WAN=y with many modules possible. Also infrared support as modules.


I upgraded several X2 hardware modems but never a winmodem.

Upgrade here meaning installing a new driver?

I meant for winmodems.
No, I actually wrote something to the EPROM (?) of the modem and it now answers differently. Like upgrading a BIOS.


David

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