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

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