From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Cardbus 802.11g card with WPA for eCS or Linux?
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On 03/04/07 09:27 pm, madodel thus wrote :
> Anyone know of a good Cardbus wireless 802.11g card that will work 
> with either eCS or Linux?  My wife wants to use my old P4 laptop in 
> her office and I want it reasonably secure so I need to use WPA and I 
> don't want no stinking windoze.  Does this exist for eCS?
>
Mark, the Cisco 802.11b/g is a nice CardBUS card, but unfortunately, the 
Cisco driver we have doesn't recognize it. I think the issue is more the 
fact that Jens' development of the PC Card drivers stopped just short of 
the proliferation of CardBUS Wi-Fi cards (and, indeed, 802.11g), leaving 
us with the smattering of support we now have for 16-bit PCMCIA 
(802.11b) cards and not much else (if anything).

I take it your old laptop is not Wi-Fi ready? In that case, you may be 
best served by using one of those bridge devices where you will have 
full support of the hardware, independent of the OS. None of the card 
drivers supports WPA under OS/2, of that I am certain.

-- 
Lewis
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