[SPARCbook] 802.11 network cards

[Mike Ekholm]

I went ahead and got a wavelan 2.0MB bronze card, I am gonna see if
I can get that sucker to work.

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 04:47:15PM -0500, Stephen Martin wrote:
> Jim Thompson wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I don't know of any, but it seems fairly straightforward.  There are 
> > quite a few Linux/BSD drivers
> > out there (with source), and the Tadpole PCMCIA stack should accommodate 
> > an 802.11 card
> > in a fairly straightforward manner.
> > 
> > If I had to guess, the PRISM-based cards (basically everything that 
> > isn't Lucent, Cisco or Symbol)
> > would be the easiest.   (And yes, I know that Cisco/Symbol are both 
> > PRISM-based, but they
> > tweak their firmware.)
> > 
> > If I still had a sparcbook, I'd consider doing this just for hack-value.
> > 
> > Jim
> > (who used to work in engineering at Tadpole.)
> > 
> >> hello,
> >> has anyone gotten any 802.11 wireless network cards to work with the
> >> sparcbooks? If so what kind and how?
> >> 
> 
> I have a sparcbook and a Lucent Orinoco silver card. I tried the card in
> the sparcbook but could see no visible sign that it recognized it. If anyone
> would like to send me info/code/pointers I would be happy to experiment with
> it.
> 
> By the way, the Lucent card is basically plug and play under Linux on an
> intel laptop.
> -- 
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