On 26 Dec 2004, Dani Belz wrote: > 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
I have two Cisco Aironet 340s on my laptops, one of which is also a Satellite (4000CDT) and they work extremely well. I seem to remember having to work a bit when I first set one up about a year ago but on two recent occasions when I've installed Debian Sarge via the Installer the cards were recognized and set up automatically and I was connected to the Net without having to do anything. Anthony -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://www.acampbell.org.uk using Linux GNU/Debian || for book reviews, electronic Windows-free zone || books and skeptical articles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
