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>Gerardo Arnaez</A
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>2004-06-03</TD
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>Cleaning up this HOW-TO. I have since moved on and
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offer this document for adoption or at least consider it
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obsolete at this time. Also my (ex) girl friend never did
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write the documentation to how she got the card working with
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Suse. Sorry.</TD
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>WPC11 CARD DRIVERS HAVE CHANGED. Thanks to Bill
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Atkins for providing information and solution</TD
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>Most likely last update for this manual. The new
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2.5 (to be 2.6) kernel appears to work fine with respect to
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wireless cards and hence you can build wireless support
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directly into the kernel and not have to go 'outside' it like this.</TD
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>Made a few typo corrections. Publish it on Freshmeat</TD
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>Thanks to Justin Stockton for helping me eliminate a confusing bit of reading.</TD
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>I have decided to generalize this document to other distributions then just Debian. The redhat section is due to the generous contribution of Tony Perrie of Involution (.DOT.) com. I also recently got a fast connection again and was able to update kernel and patches info. I also tried out the new wlan-ng module</TD
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>Made clear where to get most up-to-date documents</TD
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>Made clear what version on linux-wlan I actually used.</TD
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>In part 2 of the HOWTO, the last item says make-kpkg --revision-custom.1.0 kernel_image when later on you used the correct one make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image . Where there is an equal sign before the word custom and not a dash. This has been corrected. thanks to Raj Prakash, raj@rajeshprakash.com</TD
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>I attempted to follow my own instruction on re-installing on the same laptop and found my how-to a little lacking. Have made things a bit clearer on what I am using. Also made a table to two</TD
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