New Laptop and 802.11

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Aug 13 15:07:30 UTC 2007


On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 02:43:37PM -0400, Howard Gibson wrote:
>     My Acer Aspire 3620 has buttons and idiot lights that support wireless communications, but I eventually figured out that there are no wireless devices on it.  I have to plug something in.
> 
>     Try `/sbin/lspci` and see what devices your computer recognizes.

Probably has an empty miniPCI slot that could take a wifi card (assuming
you can get one the BIOS will accept).

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