Re: Support for 802.11 cards?

Mike Pontillo (mike_p@polaris.wox.org)
Mon, 29 Jan 2001 17:09:34 -0800 (PST)


Hmm, this is interesting... I know that the kernel can be set to
try to detect PCI devices on its own, without the help of the BIOS. Is
there any reason why that feature wouldn't work with this particular type
of card?

Thanks,
Mike Pontillo

On 29 Jan 2001, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

> m> The ISA bridge also works on the 2.4 kernels but I have not
> m> retested the PCI bridge on 2.4.
>
> The Lucent PCI-to-Cardbus bridge only works on machines that have a
> recent PCI BIOS. Any motherboard more than about 16 months old simply
> won't find the bridge card, and hence neither will Linux.
>
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