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I had thought that a couple of weeks ago I saw a string in which someone had successfully got it running on RH7.2. Can't find that posting again, so I hoped to probe the waters and find a brain trust who knows the answer. Maybe I am out of luck, I hope not.
Thnxs anyway.
With wireless gear, don't trust the kernel, its about 4 steps behind what the driver maintainers for the projects are putting out. The biggest chipsets in 802.11b these days are Symbol and Prism2, both of which have only marginal support in the orinoco_cs and pals set of drivers collectively know as the dldwd, Dave's Less Dodgy Wavelan Driver. 2.4.18 has I think version .08b, Dave's now up to .12 and prism cards finally work right. There are three other projects that provide drivers that are not, and probably none of them ever will be, part of the kernel. In one case I actually found that the driver covered a card Dave's didn't, but that would matter if you had 3com.
However, this card is an 802.11a product, which has probably been on the market for a period that can be measured in days, if not a few weeks. I don't think there are any projects that support these chipsets as of yet, but I'm going to poke around and I'll post what I find.
I can't find a bloody thing, so I mailed the driver maintainers of a couple of 802.11b projects and asked them if there is ANY support for 802.11a. These chipsets are entirely different worlds, work at different bandwidths, and unlike 802.11g, this is not backwards compatible with 802.11b. Buggerit.
Even if there is any support out there its going to be rather alpha.
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