I remember seeing that the Dell wireless adapter uses the aironet 4800/4500 adapter. It is supposed to be supported and should work although I haven't tried it myself.
I have a Cisco aironet 352 which uses the same driver and that works fine! Fish On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 12:31, Karsten Rothemund wrote: > Hello List, > > my Dell Inspiron is running better and better under Linux (Debian)[1]. > Now I beginn to think about a WLAN-card, because the University of > Rostock has installed a WLAN-network in most of its buildings. The > problem is, I don't know, if the WLAN-card Dell offers is running with > Linux. > > In fact they offer(ed) two variants: > > 1. a usual PCMCIA-card. This will work - I think - as good as every > other card (and therefor I can take any other of these cards) > > 2. The Laptop has a builtin antenna for WLAN (this makes this solution > look so sexy) which will work with a special DELL-WLAN-card (not so > sexy). As far as I know, this card has to be installed into the laptop > (so, maybe it is too late anyway). But I don't know anything about > this card. Anyone with more information here? > > Thanx for any help, > > > > [1] a report on my journey through Linux-Djungle can soon be found under > http://www-ae.e-technik.uni-rostock.de/home/karo/I8100-Installation.de.html > (unfortunately only in german language up to now) > -- > > Karsten Rothemund, > Institut f. Allgemeine Elektrotechnik, Universitaet Rostock > Tel.: +49 (0)381 498 3649 > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (PGP- and GnuPG-Key available on my HomePage: > http://www-ae.e-technik.uni-rostock.de/home/karo/) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
