[wplug] setting up an old laptop

[Ben Beige]

Hmmm no cdrom fir one, though I may try on a laptop at work tommrow and 
it's nota  pci based system (too old)


At 01:21 AM 1/21/2004 +0200, you wrote:
>On Wednesday 21 January 2004 00:16, Ben Beige wrote:
> > Well I've gotten a base install of debian up and going I dunno how to
> >  get the wireless card working though
>
>You might cheat and boot KNOPPIX and see if it recognizes the card, and
>then build/load the module in Debian. Or you might do it the "proper"
>way, which is lspci -vv and then trying to figure out what your card
>is, if it has modules for Linux and where these are.
>
>I'd go with #1 :-)
>
>Usually finding out which driver is appropriate is the toughest part of
>getting it to work.
>
>Cheers
>
>-A
>
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