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On Jul 30, 2005, at 9:34 pm, Daevid Vincent wrote: |
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> I have been pulling my hair out for a while after updating my kernel, I |
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> couldn't get my wlan0 wireless PCMCIA card to work again. I kept |
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> re-emerging |
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> the "net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng" but was never getting the module. |
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> ... |
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> Then after staring at the ebuild line I realized much to my |
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> astonishment |
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> that it is set to "-pcmcia". WTF?! This seems to me absurd. 90% of the |
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> wireless cards out there are PCMCIA. |
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As a "specialist purveyor of guaranteed Linux-compatible wireless |
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cards" the figure of 90% seems to me slightly excessive. I sell two |
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types of Belkin card, both using the Ralink chipset (`emerge rt25000`) |
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and both at the same price - over the past couple of months 40% of my |
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orders have been for the PCMCIA (in fact Cardbus) model, 60% for the |
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PCI model. |
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If I were to include sales of Prism54 cards (more expensive, but |
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suitable for use in master mode for wireless accesspoints, basestations |
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& routers) then the figures for PCI cards would be higher, but I feel |
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the scarcity of these cards may be to blame for that figure, rather |
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than the distribution of wireless laptops to wirelessly-networked |
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desktop PCs. |
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Stroller. |
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