[nycbug-talk] PCMCIA wireless card source?

[Tom Derylo]

On 5/13/05, Michael Shalayeff <mickey at lucifier.net> wrote:
> Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Tom Derylo:
> [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I have an old (PII/333) thinkpad that boots FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and
> > > SuSE.  I'm trying to find a supported wireless card for it, but
> > > everything I'm seeing in the stores is CardBus.  Does anyone know of
> > > someplace local I can find some a Type II b/g card that's upported
> > > under at least one of the OSes?  Next step is on line, but I'd rather
> > > just grab it on lunch sometime if I can.
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I recently had some woes with my Toshiba Tecra 802.11b/g PCMCIA Card on FreeBSD
> > and with sound too, but got it to work with ndis driver, using Windows
> > Drivers really cool
> > if you ask me, you should try to get it working that way.
> 
> i am sorry but this is the dumbest statement of the week.
> besides the point that implementing the ndis compatibility
> layer is a mistake (although perhaps not w/o a hack value)
> using it should be considered the outmost the last resort.

So is that your solution to his problem? I see even this group has trolls.

//tom