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

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Sheldon Isaac wrote:

> OK, I will stop now.
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> But apparently some of these PC cards (PCMICIA?) do have Linux drivers:
> http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Download_C2&childpagename=US%2FLa
> yout&cid=1115417109934&packedargs=sku%3D1121874576896&pagename=Linksys%2FCommo
> n%2FVisitorWrapper

I found an old list of wireless ethernet cards that are not cardbus (they 
are 16-bit, cardbus is 32-bit) which work with airo_cs.o, netwave-cs.o, 
ray_cs.o, wavelan_cs.o, or (a very long list) orinoco_cs.o, all of which 
Steven provides for 2.2.26.  Someone suggested Netgear MA401, which I 
learned uses orinoco_cs.o and is $23-24 used at ebay or elsewhere.  (It 
must be a really good one, since other 11Mbps models which are newer are 
not selling for about $11 including postage).

What I want to do does not involve a router.  I want to go online via a 
pcmcia wireless card (the one I have may only work in Windows) and then 
connect a desktop linux computer to it via a cable.  I already was able to 
use linux plugged into a router (at the house of someone with a Mac). 
That would be a way to use free county-wide wireless service, which we 
might have in a year or two.

I have not investigated PCI wireless network cards yet.  Slow ones might 
be cheap and plentiful.

> I will send you, Sindi, a driver file I just got.
> To look at.
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> As I think Steven said, the BL site has some WLAN drivers?
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> Thanks,
> Sheldon
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