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Old 02-21-2008, 06:46 AM
Pez Mohr
 
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Default Re: Wireless PCMCIA card...

Lee J. Moore wrote:
> I'm interested in the specific make & model #'s of %s Gentoo notebook users
> are using (which are easy to configure). I'm having great difficulty in
> choosing one because some manufacturers seem to alternate between two
> chipsets without changing the model number of the card. I almost purchased
> a 3COM wireless bundle (an AP as well as PCMCIA card) only to find no
> support whatsoever. A pain in the rear to find that Centrino wireless
> isn't supported <curses Intel>, never mind trying to find a suitable PCMCIA
> card.


I have a Linksys WPC11 version 3 that uses the Prism2 chipset that has
no problems whatsoever in either slack or gentoo. I also have used some
acx100 based cards in a gentoo box of mine, working fine with the
drivers from http://acx100.sf.net, as Dean Edwards also pointed out.
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