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From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] REQ: net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng default to +pcmcia
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 22:15:46
Message-Id: acd23bf74d0c2e408ca854b4ed377f65@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] REQ: net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng default to +pcmcia by Daevid Vincent
1 On Jul 30, 2005, at 9:34 pm, Daevid Vincent wrote:
2
3 > I have been pulling my hair out for a while after updating my kernel, I
4 > couldn't get my wlan0 wireless PCMCIA card to work again. I kept
5 > re-emerging
6 > the "net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng" but was never getting the module.
7 > ...
8 >
9 > Then after staring at the ebuild line I realized much to my
10 > astonishment
11 > that it is set to "-pcmcia". WTF?! This seems to me absurd. 90% of the
12 > wireless cards out there are PCMCIA.
13
14 As a "specialist purveyor of guaranteed Linux-compatible wireless
15 cards" the figure of 90% seems to me slightly excessive. I sell two
16 types of Belkin card, both using the Ralink chipset (`emerge rt25000`)
17 and both at the same price - over the past couple of months 40% of my
18 orders have been for the PCMCIA (in fact Cardbus) model, 60% for the
19 PCI model.
20
21 If I were to include sales of Prism54 cards (more expensive, but
22 suitable for use in master mode for wireless accesspoints, basestations
23 & routers) then the figures for PCI cards would be higher, but I feel
24 the scarcity of these cards may be to blame for that figure, rather
25 than the distribution of wireless laptops to wirelessly-networked
26 desktop PCs.
27
28 Stroller.
29
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