Easy question...Compatibility

[Toby Corkindale]

For what its worth, my laptop with mandrake 8.1 installed on it, detected
and brought up a pcmcia wavelan/orinoco/hermes/cabletron/enterasys/etc card
fine when I plugged it in.

The kernel recompile, pcmcia recompile, wavelan-tools, tcpdump, libpcap,
etc. etc. updates were only neccessary because I wanted to do raw crypted
traffic sniffing. Basic tcp/ip functionality was fine out of the box.

if you're having trouble getting things to work, there may be a more
fundamental problem?

-Toby

On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 joelfressa at hotmail.com wrote:

> I had heard that my PCMCIA cards work in FreeBSD
> but the versions of BSD seem to be farther behind than
> Linux. I am afraid other hardware will not work with it.
>
> I dont know!
>
> Lets just say I might give it a try. Hmm. Any suggestions
> you want to add, email to me or the list and I will certainly
> use them gratefully.
>
> Thanks!!
>
> Joel