[nycbug-talk] PCMCIA wireless card source?

[Michael Shalayeff]

Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Tom Derylo:
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> 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.

the problem is not absense of a driver but absense of
a desired card. and your solution besides being wrong
is also completely unsubstantiated.

cu

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