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> On my Compaq Armada 4120 120MHz 256 color, which has nice sound 
> and speakers and would make a good internet radio, get dev info 
> failed for the airo 340 (though it did find the card), which 
> works elsewhere.  (Opera 8 also segfaults probably because it 
> wants more colors, but links2 works). I will test it with an 
> orinoco card.  I tried to use it to set up a D-Link Bridge with 
> 128-bit WEP, which we could place inside the neighbor's house 
> next to his Apple wireless-only router, to pick up the wireless 
> signal and transmit a wired signal next door.  The wizard needs 
> more javascript than links2 provides (for site survey).

Online with the Armada via the D-Link wireless bridge DWL-810+ and 128-bit 
WEP.  I downloaded Opera 6.10 4.9MB at 21K/sec average speed but it kept 
cutting out for 20 sec or more.  Opera 6 does not say it segfaulted but 
won't load:  fatal error client killed.

The wireless bridge works fine with BL35 kernel 2.2.26 on this laptop, 
where airo 340 would not insmod (and it does not do WEP), also via a hub. 
It only needs to be set up once (via wired ethrenet) and will then work 
with any ethernet card or port.  It will work better with a stable signal.

mplayer crashes on my older computers.  While looking for a slackware 8.1 
mpg123 I discovered that Japan no longer supports 8.1 (which gives me an 
empty slackware directory) or older, but Ireland has Slackware 1.02, 2.01 
etc. Complete.