Hello Ben,
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>Nope you shouldn't have to do that at all with pcmcia. The network
>card should pretty much just show up. The airport cards aren't
No sign of this...
>pcmcia so they are supported more like most other network cards are
>under Linux.
You'll mention it in the next sentence, in this special case I do not
use an apple airport card, just a combination of a
pci-adapter/pcmcia-card with a prism II chip...
>But honestly I haven't configured a pcmcia wireless card in Mandrake
>since 7.2 (actually the machine is still running) and I know some
Lucky you ;)
>details about pcmcia have change since then so I'm not sure what the
>exact steps are.
Ahh, I am not the only one who isn' shure ...;)
>I can't help you with setting up a Linux box as an access point.I have
No problem at all, it's not so important at the moment, but in future it
would make a lot of sense setting up a wireless LAN without having all
those patch cables (pre-) installed...
>absolutely no experience doing that. And the instructions I posted are
>only relevent to clients not access points. You'll need special
>software to do it right.
Special software? So it is not enough what -eg- mdk 8.2 provides in
their distribution?
Greetings Harald
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