[ale] wireless card for laptop

[David S. Jackson]

On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 09:36:05PM -0600 Joe Knapka <jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:
> Matthew Magee <mnmagee at earthlink.net> writes:
> 
> > > >  So far I have come up with a netgear MA 401. Any other ideas?
> > >
> > > Is it 16bit?
> > Yes, and I have some info on getting the MA 401 working with Slack 9.0
> 
> Assuming all MA401's use the Prism2 chipset, it ought to
> work fine. I've got an MA401 talking under RH8 and Slack 8.1.
> Of course, manufacturers have been known to totally change
> the hardware without relabelling the product, so YMMV.

The ma401 ver 3 was the last prism2 chipset on this card.  Version 4
went to a realtek.  Here's a link (be careful, the realtek site has
distro-specific drivers--you'll have to do some hand-editing of the
sources so they'll build correctly for your system):

http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Wireless-Link-sys-WPC11/x101.html

Haven't tried this myself, since I returned the linksys and went to
an older prism2-based card.  

HTH.

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David S. Jackson                                dsj at dsj.net
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