[ale] PCMCIA wireless with linux support

Boris Borisov bugyatl at gmail.com
Sun May 29 10:48:24 EDT 2016


How soon do you need these.

On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 7:20 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
wrote:

> It doesn't *have* to be PCMCIA however this laptop has only two USB
> ports and they get used for other things fairly often so it would be
> nice not to tie one up permanently with a USB adapter.
>
> On 2016-05-28 14:32, Jeff Jansen wrote:
> > Does it *HAVE* to be PCMCIA, or do you just need to get wireless to a
> machine
> > which doesn't have it?  You can pick up a USB wireless adapter for under
> $10 at
> > MicroCenter and the other usual suspects.  The ones I've bought recently
> have
> > worked out of the box with Ubuntu and Debian.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net
> > <mailto:agcarver+ale at acarver.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     Can anyone recommend a PCMCIA wireless card that's supported by
> linux?
> >     I have an old Linksys WPC54Gv2 card which worked fine using
> ndiswrapper
> >     under Debian wheezy but it's broken under jessie (lots of messages
> about
> >     not being able to load the driver).  I'm not sure what really changed
> >     between the two versions of the distribution but it's enough to kill
> use
> >     of this card.  I can't seem to find any information on what to do to
> fix
> >     it either.  So I'm left with trying to find a card that will work.
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