[Gllug] wireless

Xander D Harkness xander at harkness.co.uk
Fri Aug 2 12:38:57 UTC 2002


On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 09:43:25PM +0900, BABA Yoshihiko wrote:
> Xander D Harkness <xander at harkness.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Daniel Andersson wrote:
> 
> > I stuck the Buffalo compact flash card with a flash to PCMCIA adapter 
> > into my laptop and it was reported as not supported.  I could not see a 
> > relevant card supported when in the kernel source.
> 
> I misses the thread, so I don't know what distro and product you 
> are using.
> 
> What chipset does it use?  The most popular are Orinoco and 
> Prism.  Most distros support Orinoco by default when you install 
> as Laptop, while growing number of distros support Prism and 
> other chipsets.  It is likely that what you need is just add an 
> entry to /etc/pcmcia.conf.
I am using Red Hat 7.3, I have had a look around for information to get the
3com card working.  The only stuff I found was with 2.2 kernels.

I shall have a look at the pcmcia.conf in the Zaurus to see if it is
transferable to the RH config :-)

Kind regards
Xander
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