PCMCIA Wireless Adapter

[rzs0502]

Hi All,

I recently bought a Mecer Wireless LAN Cardbus for my laptop.
Under Windows, it works fine and the Vendor ID comes up as Texas Instruments 802.11g adapter.
Under Slackware 10.2, the 2.4.28 kernel sees the card although lspci shows has a description of 'Illegal Vendor ID' followed by a few hex digits.
With kernel 2.6.18, it does not list the card at all under lspci although inserting and removing the card do show up in dmesg.
Has anyone got a card like this to work on Linux? (any distro)

Thanks!


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[thedaver]

What does the vendor website say about support for linux?

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[rzs0502]

The thedaver

Nothing whatsoever...
Might as well give up, spent half the night installing Gentoo to see if I had better luck with another distro.

http://ti.rapla.net/

says "Avoid buying Texas Instruments wireless products because they don't provide Open Source drivers for Linux/FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD!"



"If you always do what you've always done, you will always be where you've always been."

 

[rzs0502]

Hi thedaver

Nothing whatsoever...
Might as well give up, spent half the night installing Gentoo to see if I had better luck with another distro.

http://ti.rapla.net/

says "Avoid buying Texas Instruments wireless products because they don't provide Open Source drivers for Linux/FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD!"



"If you always do what you've always done, you will always be where you've always been."