On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 20:29, James Sparenberg wrote: > Actually I do know how to do my research but that aside. It is because > of research that I've used the cards I've used. All four where > supported under the 2.2 kernel! so ....... 2 where cardbus (DWL-650 and > and orinoco gold.) 2 were 16 bit (isa compat not PCI bus) A Cisco card > and a Netgear MA401. I'm not asking for 802.11G I'm asking for 802.11a > and b... the old standards.
I think your problem is more basic than the card; is PCMCIA working properly? In other words, does a wired NIC in the same slot work? I once had to work with RH6.2 some nasty Toshibas that had a PoS O2 PCMCIA bridge that would work for about 20 seconds before resetting itself. Luckily I was using them to demonstrate a high-availability networking product, so all I had to do was tail -f syslog in one window and explain what was happening :-) > Most of all I'm asking for a forum maybe in > MDK forum or MDK Club (Club does have the concept of moving people to > join.) that is a dedicated forum for sharing data and how to info. Also > some kind of "awareness" in MCC of wireless and pcmcia cards not just > PCI nic's. It does have this; it detected mine and set it up successfully. However, I did need to edit /etc/pcmcia/config first and change the module loaded by my card before it would work reliably, and more importantly I had to get ACPI going (non-trivial, documented at http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/vx88) before anything would work. > As for how long it takes.... I'm aware of that as well. BUT > if we keep waiting until M$ does it first before we attack the problem > we'll always be #2 on the desktop. How fast do you thing people would > move to Linux if it where the better "laptop" OS? > Er, about as fast as they move to Apple for being better at all the things that Apple people say it's better at :-) My two cents on where Linux in general and Mandrake specifically needs to go for modern laptops is full ACPI support, cpufreq or similar, and swsusp or an ACPI-based suspend. It's kind of annoying to have to halt and restart a laptop instead of suspend and awaken it. These are Linux issues though, the code is changing quickly and it'll be a few revisions into 2.6 before it's stable. MDK 9.2 should rock. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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