Wireless in linux

[Matthew Carpenter]

Wireless in Linux is pretty rock solid for a great deal of vendors... but probably wasn't in the 2.4.5 days...  If wanting to do Wireless and having issues with compatibility you should try something newer.
I believe I was able to drive most the wireless cards with Caldera's 2.4.2 kernel, though.

Once you have a working card, the pcmcia (aka pcmcia-cs, do a "rpm -qa |grep -i pcmcia" to find out) package will have some documentation on how to set up an AP.  I think it may even be in the config files.  Once you've found the package:

rpm -ql <packagename> 

will list the files provided by the package.  Look for files in /usr/share/doc/  and check the files in /etc/pcmcia/

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 12:21:11 -0500
Joel Hammer <joel at hammershome.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 11:28:24AM -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > It doesn't occur to you that a 2.4.5  kernel might be a bit long in the tooth 
> > for wireless?
> 
> It did occur to me. But, I could upgrade if necessary.  Or, just pick a
> different, newer box (I have two newer linux boxes, too) to serve as the
> link between the laptop and the network. That would require a subnet,
> I suppose, but that would be no big deal.
> 
> Joel
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