Laptops that Linux likes?

[Stephen Clower]

Hi Doug,
  How well do the kernel drivers handle 64-bit WEP encryption?


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On 4/16/2004 at 8:41 PM Doug Sutherland wrote:

>> I have a Linksys WPC11, and unfortunately the only drivers available
> > are binary-only, and they're compiled for 2.4.20 and 2.4.22.
>
>Say what? Ya know, the kernel orinico drivers work with this card.
>On slackware, using the generic kernel, this card just worked. I
>am now running it on an LFS (linux from scratch) build, it works
>fine. I built everything from source, and definitely the driver.
>Finally, its also supported by linux-wlan drivers.
>
>Assuming you have pcmcia-cs installed, try enabling the orinico
>driver in ther kernel configuration. In the network devices section
>select M (build as module) for these:
>
>Hermes chipset 802.11b support (Orinico/Prism2/Symbol)
>Hermes PCMCIA card support
>
>With these compiled as modules, on boot, when PCMCIA starts, my
>system loads these modules:
>
>orinico_cs
>orinoco
>hermes
>
>The WPC11 uses the hermes chipset, same as orinoco, works fine.
>
>On earlier version kernels, when this driver was not yet there,
>I used the linux-wlan driver with WPC11 ... no problems.
>
>http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/index.html#The%20linux-wlan%20Project
>
>But now you can just use the kernel driver.
>
>BTW I have installed linux on dozens of laptops, never had a problem
>with linux on any of them. Linux works on pretty much all laptops
>afaik. If in doubt google "linux on (insert your desired laptop)"
>and you're bound to find someone's notes on how they installed linux.
>The only problem I had to date was getting a DVD working on sony vaio.
>They seem to be windows only drivers, not on that WinXP only.
>
>   -- Doug
>
>
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