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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

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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