LXer: Orinoco WaveLAN Silver card works in Power Mac G4 with Debian Etch

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LXer: Orinoco WaveLAN Silver card works in Power Mac G4 with Debian Etch

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12-29-2008, 11:40 PM	#1
LXer LXer NewsBot Registered: Dec 2005 Posts: 128,357 Rep:	LXer: Orinoco WaveLAN Silver card works in Power Mac G4 with Debian Etch Published at LXer: I had no expectation that it would work, but I decided to shove my trusty Orinoco WaveLAN Silver PCMCIA 802.11b wireless networking card into the meant-for-Airport-only slot in my Power Macintosh G4/466 running Debian Etch. I connected the antenna wire. I booted Debian. I opened the Desktop -- Administration -- Networking tool. There it was, eth2, my wireless card. One problem: Since the Orinoco WaveLAN Silver card is quite a bit longer than the Airport card this slot was meant for, there's no way I can even close the case of the G4 while using the Wi-Fi card. Read More...

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