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

> Before putting much more effort into streaming audio, we may try to
> connect to the neighbor's broadband connection us so we can listen at
> 24K-32K without it cutting out for 30 sec at a time, or running at 1/5
> advertised speed at other times.
>
> We were given a Linksys Wireless-B Notebook Adapter WPC11 ver 4, which
> unlike earlier versions appears to be supported by Linksys only by way of
> Windows drivers using 'ndiswrapper'.  Can this be done in BL, maybe with
> 2.2.26 or 2.4.31 kernel?
>
> Linksys supposedly offered free exchanges for ver 3 but another linux user
> eventually gave up trying and returned it for a refund instead.
>
> The card is identified in other people's linuxes as rtl8139 (realtek).
Make that rtl8180L
> Are any wireless ethernet manufacturers still providing linux drivers?

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net
They provide a link to the realtek site for the proper driver and say not 
to use the one from linksys (which I don't have anyway).

Version 1.8 is current stable.

Our card works with version 1.1 (March 2005) and kernel 2.4.29.

132K .tar.gz source code, which I will compile dynamically for 2.2.25 and 
then statically with uclibc if anyone wants it for BL3.

NDIS - network driver interface specification
Lets you use native Windows drivers with PCI and PCMCIA network cards, 
USB-to-serial devices, and other things listed at the site, which also 
lists all the cards known to work with this wrapper.

I might try it with a recent wired PCI ethernet card.