im using redhat 9 and i have a buffalo pcmcia wireless card. i want to get it going so i looked in my redhat bible book 1200pages thick and flipped to the wireless section and i tried everything in thier possible.

so i then surfed the google.com site for the last 2 hrs trying to find what i can do to get the card up and running!
yet the only thing i can find is sites referencing the wvlan or wavelan driver which will work with the buffalo card?
ok so i search for internet for wvlan driver huh ? gez not found ?

is it in the distro ?

will any built in drivers work?

this is the main reason people have trouble with linux is because hardware is not working properly with thier system!

it can make things very difficult which is why people use M$ .

Is their a site on the internet i can pay someone money to help me with linux questions?

im more then willing to pay $$$$.

what's your card's model number?

if you want to pay for support, you can buy something like a mandrake 9.2 discovery boxed set...

it comes with 30 days of installation technical support...

http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/92/discovery

wli-cb-g54a

here's a PAID solution:

http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/

paid answers forum site not driver site

what i'm saying is that it looks like there's NO NATIVE LINUX SUPPORT for your card...

linuxant provides an optional paid solution for this problem...

email or call buffalo and ask them why your card isn't natively supported by the linux 2.4 kernel...

ouch that sux.!
but why are people saying that wvlan drivers work with the cards?
http://lists.linux-wlan.com/pipermai...er/000735.html

i'm not sure, maybe they were talking about another model or something...

the buffalo features comparison cleary shows linux isn't supported for your card:

(linux compatibility is the last row in the table)

http://www.buffalotech.com/wireless/sales/features.html


there's a limit to what linux kernel developers can do when the hardware's manufacturer doesn't cooperate...

and of course sometimes the reasons for hardware not being supported under linux are purely technical...

i'm not sure what the case is here, though...

=(