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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] a very strange laptop
  • Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 23:04:16 +0000 (UTC)


Futher reading on the net suggests that for wireless ethernet cards (maybe not for the 'b' 11Mbit type but in general) you need kernel 2.4.22 or later. SW9.1 - 2.4.22 SW10.1 2.4.29 or 2.6.10. And the module pertinent to your card, which can be PCI or PCMCIA or USB. SW81 is 2.4.18, which explains why nobody has reported using it for wireless ethernet.

Some day I will attempt to make a BL2-like SW9.1 kernel with sound and wireless ethernet support.


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.

Sindi




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