Microsoft Wirless Card

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Jun 28 2005, 07:29 AM

Hey, i realize this is probably a really stupid questoin because this is a microsoft product trying to work with linux..... i know i could do better but right now i am stuck with a wireless microsoft card... (pcmcia) and i want to run something like mandrake on my system and have my wireless card work , but i haven't been able to find any drivers or anything that could make this work... and i dont awnt to have to emulate windows on my unix system to do this... so i was wondeirng if there is a way to make my wireless card work via Unix

model is MN-700 102.11g

any help would be great

myth

Jun 28 2005, 08:08 AM

You can try using ndiswrapper

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Description: Userspace utilities for ndiswrapper
Some wireless LAN vendors refuse to release hardware specifications or
drivers for their products for operating systems other than Microsoft
Windows. NdisWrapper makes it possible to use such hardware with Linux by
means of a loadable kernel module that "wraps around" NDIS (Windows network
driver API) drivers.
.
This package contains the userspace tools. You will also need the kernel
module package.

(apt-cache show ndiswrapper-utils)

Or you can try Whoppix or Auditor and check if the card works in that first.

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