Re: pcmcia wireless LAN card on desktop pc

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

Hi.  Do know the names of any brands of ISA cards that interface to
PCMCIA?

Thanks.

 > From: http://www.tsoft.com/~mperry (Michael Perry)
 > Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 12:49:44 -0000
 >
 > On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 20:30:44 +0800, Crystal Luo <http://www.psl.com.sg/~cjluo> wrote:
 > > Dear all,
 > > I installed Redhat Linux 7.0 on both of my laptop and desktop. I get my
 > > laptop connected to office LAN using pcmcia wireless LAN card. However I
 > > cannot get my desktop connected using the same card. The pcmcia wireless LAN
 > > card is slotted into a pcmcia adapter on my desktop. There is a normal 3com
 > > network card on the system too. Are there any necessary settings or changes
 > > to files in order to make the pcmcia card work on desktop? Any hints will be
 > > highly appreciated.
 > > 
 > > Crystal
 > > 
 > You could purchase a isa to pcmcia adaptor card that is specifically made to
 > host the wireless card.  I have a wireless network at home which I started
 > with a Pc I build as a "access point" which had an orinoco silver 11mb pc
 > you simple compile pcmcia services on the desktop and use either the bundled
 > wvlan drivers or orinoco's wavelan2_cs drivers which require patching of the
 > pcmcia sources.  I don't specifically know about RH7.  I use debian here. 
 > You may need to install the pcmcia_cs rpms from the installation cdrom or
 > or something close to that.
 > 
 > -- 
 > Michael Perry
 > http://www.tsoft.com/~mperry