Re: [PLUG] Laptop and Wireless on Linux

[Rahul Karnik <rahul@genebrew.com>]

> http://www.linux-wlan.org/
>
> Has the info on support for more recent cards and how to compile to work 
> with card services.

Note that you rarely need these drivers. Most cards are supported out of 
the box by any new distributions as well as either the mainline kernel 
or the PCMCIA-CS drivers at http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net. The WLAN 
drivers have some nifty features but exist out of the kernel tree for a 
reason.

> Matthew Ozor wrote:
>
> > I just got a new Laptop with a D-link wireless airport card and a D-link
> > router. Has anyone here had any success with Linux on the Laptop and
> > wireless ethernet? I searched and I haven't found any support for the 
> > Linux
> > D-links site. I was thinking about setting up a dual boot to test this 
> > out
> > what do you think?



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