[ale] PCMCIA wireless with linux support

Alex Carver agcarver+ale at acarver.net
Sat May 28 19:20:51 EDT 2016


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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