[Preston] Wireless card

[Guy]

Giacomo,
I have a Thinkpad 390E and all my pcmcia problems were solved when I compiled 
a custom kernel and the pcmcia-cs package as a module. I use Debian 3.0 and 
there are some tools that are provided by Debian that make compiling quite 
straightforward. There is also a special Thinkpad module you can compile that 
allows you to use all the power management functions on the laptop.

Sadly, I know absolutely nothing about wireless network cards.
;-)
But, have a look at:
http://mobilix.org/pcmcia_linux.html
-- 
Guy

On Monday 04 November 2002 1:14 pm, you wrote:
> Hi all :)
> I was looking for a Wireless network card for my laptop. Probably I will be
> forced to buy a pcmcia card, but I don't like that kind of device: I had
> many problems in the past just trying to make "simple" pcmcia
> ethernet-adapters running under Linux. So, does anyone know if there are
> serial/usb external devices for this task, with prices under £100 ? and
> which are the "reliable" hardware retailers in Preston or on the net?
> Buying from italian retailers is not a good idea, y'know ;)
>
> Second question: do you know if there is a database of supported cards a
> bit larger than the Wireless-Howto ( that is at
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ ) ?
>
> Btw, yesterday I bought the LinuxFormat magazine, and I found it very good;
> for people without a good internet access, the cds are full of good stuff,
> and  often with source files; also the magazine is good and provides a lot
> of useful tips. LinuxMagazine, instead, didn't seem good to me, with
> columns lacking details. Do you know other good linux magazines?
>
> thanks for your attention :)
> Giacomo
>
>
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