Default User([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> Would anyone please recommend a suitable wireless adapter for these
> conditons:
>
> 1) Use in 2004 Toshiba Satellite M35X-S109. Has USB ports, Cardbus slot.
> Does not have mini-pci-E space/slot, (whaterver that is, it must be
> something new they have these days). Does not have built-in wireless.
>
> 2) run Debian Etch '486 (will later upgrade to Debian testing).
>
> 3) Should work "out of the box", with out having to try to learn how to
> recompile the kernel or insert modules or ndiswrapper, etc. However
> painful to realize, I am wise enough to know that I am just too old to
> learn all that.
That's a break point. I don't know of _any_ USB or CardBus/pcmcia
wireless adapter that "just works out of the box". The
drivers/firmware must be downloaded, installed and configured.
BUT.
Using this list as a help tool, anyone that can answer questions and
follow directions, can get the right adapter running.
Have you done any searching on google for a USB wireless Adapter that
runs on Linux, in or out of the box. That would be a good start,
don't you think. The more you learn the easier it will be for this
list to assist you in getting it to work.
>
> 3) Should be easily available new (not used Ebay, etc) in USA.
> Preberably in brick-and-mortar store (Best Buy, Circuit City, OfficeMax,
> Office Depot, etc).
That's is not a problem. As I mentioned in a post today I just picked
up a new USB Wireless Adapter on Ebay for < $18 including shipping and
have it running fine on a 90's IBM 200MHz Thinkpad. After
downloading and installing the drivers and firmware it took all of 5
minutes to get it working. The choice is up to you as to where you
buy.
>
> [Or as poor alternative, available by phone/mail/web from reputable US
> retail source payable in US dollars (I'm not up to the hassles of
> currency exchange and payment method problems with non-US sources, and
> do not want to wait months to get it (if ever) and more months to return
> it, etc).]
Same applies to this point.
> 4) USB is preferable, since Cardbus slots may soon be extinct. I would
> like to have something that can be used in a future laptop that may by
> then only have USB available.
That might not be to the easiest one. Some of the USB wireless
adapter drivers are in heavy development. I have only one of 3 USB
wireless adapters fully functional. I am not an authority on USB wireless
adapters though. I am still trying to learn.
I don't know how old you are but I will be 69 in November. I find
doing this kind of 'mental' exercise to be very enjoyable and healthy.
Regards
Wayne
BTW We like to call people by name on the list. It's nicer than
saying "Please post the output of 'fconfig wlan0' Default". We are a
friendly group here, most of the time. :-)
--
C, n.:
A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like assembly
except that it isn't very much like either one, or anything else. It is either
the best language available to the art today, or it isn't.
-- Ray Simard
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