Wireless NIC

[jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz)]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 12:57:26AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Have you tried a d-link or orinoco?  Any prism2 or orinoco card
> should work just fine.
> 
> -derek
> 
> Anthony Gabrielson <agabriel at home.tzo.org> writes:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 	I have a wireless NIC that Linux doesn't seem to see at all.
> > I even tried ndiswrapper with no avail...  If anyone knows of a cheap
> > 802.11b card I can get for my laptop that will work with a 2.6 kernel
> > or through ndiswrapper I would appreciate a heads up.  If anyone know
> > how to kick a VCTnet PC11BR card into working that would be even
> > better.  Funny thing is this card had drivers for 2.4 that seemed to
> > be dropped going into 2.6.  Also Linux can not find (i.e. even see)
> > either of the two examples for this card at all, really strange as it
> > can be found and work under windows.  Would anyone be familiar with
> > why the NICS aren't being seen?  Could these be win nics?  Does such a
> > thing exist....

Never heard of a win-nic either (see dave's post).  

Does it make sense that drivers for a nic in 2.4 would be dropped from
2.6?

What disto'releases were you running?  AND - Can you tell us exactly
what driver vas veing used vor the card?



PS. - I just read over in the redhat install list that top posting
makes you go blind and grows hair on your palms... :-)


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