802.11b cardbus card for gentoo?

[Stewart C. Russell]

Nick Davey wrote:
> 
> Also, the Dlink 802.11b cards apparently work with the madwifi 
> drivers, but thats only what I've heard.

Thanks, Nick. I did a bit of research, and discovered that Linux's 
support for PC-card WiFi NICs is arcane. If you want to use a really old 
802.11b card, they are well supported. Recent ones are a mess of ninary 
drivers and firmware patches. Bleah.

I'm currently fighting with a D-Link DWL-650+ card, which several sites 
claim they have got working (though, worryingly, the main acx100 SF.net 
site says it won't).

At the bottom of one of the HOWTO pages, I found a very annoying 
statement: "This also works with the SMC 2435W card." The SMC 2435W is 
the one I bought the other day. Argh!

cheers,
  Stewart
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