[Glastonbury] Hello again and thanks - Wireless Cards in Linux

[Kelvin McNulty]

On Thursday 13 January 2005 17:23, Phil Wood wrote:
...
> At the end of the month I hope to have the time for another attempt to
> get my laptop wireless using Linux. So the next meeting could be just at
> the right time for me. In the mean time of any of you have been
> successful in this I'd love to hear from you. Which distribution? Which
> wireless card?

Buffalo Air Station 11Meg (802.11b) card, model no. WLI-PCM-L11GP under SuSE 
8.1, has been running really well for nearly 2 years. It was installed for me 
by some guys from Psand (see Google) at a festival where they were running a 
wireless network with satellite uplink. They did not have to install a 
handler, they just wrote a bit of config, and it worked! I was so delighted, 
really fast surfing while sitting in a field was wonderful! They said the OS 
has everything in it to handle the card - an Orinoco chipset, or something. 
If you want to try it, write to me off list and we'll arrange something. Or I 
can tell you the config that I know.

HTH

Kelvin