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>WireLess Network - WLAN</TITLE
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CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK
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REL="HOME"
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TITLE="Linux on the Road"
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REL="UP"
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TITLE="Hardware in Detail: CPU, Display, Keyboard, Sound and More"
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HREF="mobile-guide-p2c1-hardware-in-detail.html"><LINK
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TITLE="Hot-Swapping Devices (MultiBay, SelectBay, ..)"
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HREF="mobile-guide-p2c1s24-hotswap.html"><LINK
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TITLE="BlueTooth"
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>Chapter 12. Hardware in Detail: CPU, Display, Keyboard, Sound and More</TD
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>12.35. WireLess Network - WLAN</H1
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>For this let us found a city/ And we will name it Mahagonny/ That means: Net City/ She shall be like a Net/ That is
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set out to catch edible birds./ Everywhere there is toil and labor/ But here there is amusement/ For it is the
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uninhibited lust of men/ Not to suffer and to be allowed all things/ That is the essence of gold</I
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CLASS="attribution"
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> Bertolt Brecht, 1929
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>12.35.1. Related Documentation</H2
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> <A
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HREF="http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Wireless-HOWTO I</A
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>,
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> <A
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HREF="http://www.linux-wlan.org/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Wireless-HOWTO II</A
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> and
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</P
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></LI
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><LI
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> <A
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HREF="http://www.fuw.edu.pl/~pliszka/hints/wireless.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Wireless-HOWTO III</A
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>.
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>12.35.2. Introduction</H2
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> Many notebooks now come pre-equipped with wireless network support for the
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802.11 protocol family. These devices are either based on
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<A
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HREF="http://tuxmobil.org/minipci_linux.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>miniPCI</A
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or
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HREF="http://tuxmobil.org/pcmcia_linux.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>PCMCIA</A
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>.
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You may check that with either <B
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CLASS="command"
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>lspci</B
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> or
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<B
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CLASS="command"
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>cardctl ident</B
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>. External WLAN adapters are available
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as PCMCIA or CF-Cards and as <SPAN
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CLASS="acronym"
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>USB</SPAN
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> devices.
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Details will follow in a later issue.
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