On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 01:57:45 -0800 (PST) Olive Esseret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, > > I consider to purchase a wireless PCMCIA network card > for my laptop (toshiba Satellite A40-261). On the box, > the supported OS are only Win.... Does they cards > generally work on Linux? Do I need to pay special > attention on the card I will purchase? A friend of me > has tell me that these cards are fairly standard and > should run out of the box, is it true? Hi! Hm... Not quite sure if he's right. Most of them work but "out of the box"? I got a Netgear WG511 and it works like a charm. But I had to patch the kernel to get support for the prism chipset (http://prism54.org). And I had to get the firmware and make it load via hotplug. Took me some time to set up but there was a good tutorial on the site. grZ Dani
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