Bob: > > Is it as easy as pluging the card in and it all just working, or do I > need to install some other packages? I'm running Etch with a 2.6 kernel.
It depends on your card. And most probably (if you go out and just buy some random card) it will involve some work. It may even be impossible if you pick the wrong card. You might want to google around for supported cards. Chipsets which I have positive experience with are prism54, ipw2100, ipw2200 and the atheros chips (supported by madwifi). All except the latter one are in the vanilla kernel (but I don't think there are PCI versions of the ipw chips). It helps if you know how to compile a custom kernel and/or how to compile kernel modules against the appropriate linux-headers package. Your biggest problem will be to find out what chipset a specific card you are holding in your hands has. But every project I mentioned maintains some sort of compatiblity list. J. -- If I won the lottery I would keep all the money and wallpaper my house with it. [Agree] [Disagree] <http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html>
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