crichey at gmail
Sep 12, 2004, 11:30 AM
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On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 12:25:14 -0500, R.E. Crist <crist [at] duke> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> After many years of using the RedHat distibution and trials of several other
> distributions, I recently installed Gentoo on my desktop computer. It is the
> best distribution that I have tried by far. I have now installed Gentoo on my
> laptop and everything works well except the wireless networking card.
>
> I have an pcmcia AT&T Plug&Share 6700G. Thus far I have been unable to get it
> working and unable to find anyone who has done so. If anybody on the list has
> any suggestions about how to get this thing to work, I would appreciate hearing
> them.
>
A little googling or cruising the forums is in order. As I understand
it, some wireless chips (6700G is not enough to identify the chip that
is used) do not work under linux. There is a package (name?) that can
be used to fudge the interface to windows drivers for such chips.
I'm sure someone will jump in here.
HTH,
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