Michael Lazin on Fri, 18 Oct 2002 19:50:04 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Laptop and Wireless on Linux


I have been using a belkin wireless card and a d-link router with Mandrake Linux 8.2 on a toshiba laptop. I haven't had any problems. You might want to try Mandrake and see if it detects the card. Mandrake 9.0 is out now.

Michael






From: "Matthew Ozor" <matt@ozor.net>
Reply-To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Laptop and Wireless on Linux
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:14:32 -0400

I just found out that my card isn't supported yet I have the.. they said by
December so looks like I'll have to wait.


----- Original Message ----- From: "JP Toto" <viceclown@yahoo.com> To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 11:15 AM Subject: Re: [PLUG] Laptop and Wireless on Linux


> Other folks prolly know more about this than me but I have recently been
> messing w/ Gentoo linux on my laptop. If you have apm (advanced power
> management) compiled into your kernel then you should have support for
> monitoring it. I know in KDE there are some panels that show your power
> and enable some power saving options. You'll have to check the docs
> because I haven't gotten that for into it yet. Not sure at all about hot
> swap drives, though :-) Good luck.
>
> Matthew Ozor wrote:
> > Thanks for the link I will check it out. How does Linux handle hot swap
> > drives, and battey power on laptops?.
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "JP Toto" <viceclown@yahoo.com>
> > To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
> > Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 10:54 AM
> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Laptop and Wireless on Linux
> >
> >
> >
> >>http://www.linux-wlan.org/
> >>
> >>Has the info on support for more recent cards and how to compile to work
> >>with card services.
> >>
> >>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?
> >>>
> >>>Thanks
> >>>Matt
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
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> >>ViceClown@yahoo.com
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