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john.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Posted by "John Hansen" <john.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > I have been trying my above wireless card in a Toshiba Satelitte Pro 460cdx as > well as in a Dell Latitude 500CPx. The card works fine with the Dell and > Windows98se but does not seem to work with Damn Small Linux v. 3.0.1 nor Kubuntu > 6.06. The Tosbiba does not seem to accept the Netgear with DSL. > > Any suggestions for get tyhe Netgear working with Linux would be appreciated. > > BTW I am a complete newbie with Linux. > > John Hansen Hi John, I have this card working in Xandros (Debian based). I'm using the MADWifi module Tony mentioned. It is as Tony said a 32 bit Cardbus card, so if your Toshie doesn't have 32 bit Cardbus capability I'm afraid you're out of luck. However, some laptops (such as my Compaq Presario R3307EA have a PCMCIA Controller that Linux does not like to play with. If that is the case with your laptop it is possibly still doable with a little bit of fiddling. Best thing I can suggest to diagnose it is to insert the card into the laptop and then try 'lspci -v' (-v = verbose - gives a bit more info). It should be possible then to see if the laptop is actually detecting the hardware at all, and what PCMCIA controller it has onboard. Kind regards, Julian -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html