[aclug-L] Re: Init.d question reguading using a wifi pcmcia card on red hat 6.0

[Nate Bargmann <n0nb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* michael holmes <aerospaced@xxxxxxx> [2006 Jan 06 16:07 -0600]:
> On my laptop, I can run the knoppix 4.02 and it will boot up with wifi
> 108Mbit super g.  ( on a PIII-450 laptop!)  My laptop runs linux red hat
> 6.0 and barely supports static ip.  The knoppix will boot up 8011.g with
> DHCP.  How can I steal the 801.1g support from the image?  I want to
> loadthe package onto my red hat.  This system has been on my laptop and
> running solid, weeks at a time, since the install day six years ago!!
> (Which may be a suggestion for the near future.  Also, does anybody have
> mutiple disk..debian, red hat....  

More than likely RH 6 is much too old to offer much support for the
wireless card.  I would suggest either getting another hard drive and
installing KNOPPIX to it or save your data and replace the old Red Hat.
I don't foresee any easy way to mix 'n match.

- Nate >>

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