On Jul 30, 2005, at 9:34 pm, Daevid Vincent wrote:
I have been pulling my hair out for a while after updating my kernel, I
couldn't get my wlan0 wireless PCMCIA card to work again. I kept
re-emerging
the "net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng" but was never getting the module.
...
Then after staring at the ebuild line I realized much to my
astonishment
that it is set to "-pcmcia". WTF?! This seems to me absurd. 90% of the
wireless cards out there are PCMCIA.
As a "specialist purveyor of guaranteed Linux-compatible wireless
cards" the figure of 90% seems to me slightly excessive. I sell two
types of Belkin card, both using the Ralink chipset (`emerge rt25000`)
and both at the same price - over the past couple of months 40% of my
orders have been for the PCMCIA (in fact Cardbus) model, 60% for the
PCI model.
If I were to include sales of Prism54 cards (more expensive, but
suitable for use in master mode for wireless accesspoints, basestations
& routers) then the figures for PCI cards would be higher, but I feel
the scarcity of these cards may be to blame for that figure, rather
than the distribution of wireless laptops to wirelessly-networked
desktop PCs.
Stroller.
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