PCMCIA NICS and Wireless

[Net Llama!]

If you're determined to use only Caldera's kernel & pcmcia packages, 
then you might be out of luck.  From the reports that i've seen all over 
usenet, Caldera's pcmcia-cs package shipped completely broken.

Looks like you're using the latest pcmcia-cs, but the kernel might be 
questionable.  Are you looking to get a working pcmcia NIC, or a 
wireless card or both?  I've had pretty good success with Linksys pcmcia 
NICs, and Cisco wireless cards.  But, this is under RH-7.2/3 not Caldera.

Bill Campbell wrote:
> I've been looking for PCMCIA NICs and wireless adapters compatible with
> Caldera OpenLinux 3.1.1 Workstation with the latest kernel binary RPM from
> Caldera, and an update version of pcmcia-cs that I built while attempting
> to get a NetGear FA511 working (somebody broke the dongle off the FA510
> that had been working in it for a year or so).  The RPMS I have on this
> system are now:
> 	linux-kernel-binary-2.4.13-15D
> 	pcmcia-cs-3.2.1-1
> 
> I went to our friendly neighborhood supplier last week with my laptop, and
> tried a number of different cards including the Latest & Greatest from
> NetGear and SMC (10/100 and wireless).  The only thing I found that it
> recognized was the current Xircom 10/100 card, which I really don't want to
> use because it takes two slots preventing me from using my flash reader or
> SCSI adapter.
> 
> NetGear has been singularly unhelpful even though I've talked to their
> reseller support folks (who're supposed to know more than the end-user
> support people), and haven't received any response to detailed e-mail
> questions.

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