[buug] wireless

johnd john at jjdev.com
Wed Mar 26 19:58:26 PST 2003


On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 07:30:02PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting myself:
> > Quoting johnd (john at jjdev.com):
> > 
> > > Anyone  know if
> > > TrueMobile 1300 Internal MiniPCI Cards
>                                  ^^^
> > > work under linux?
> > 
> > The key to answering such questions is to find out the _chipset_.  You
> > didn't post this, presumably because you didn't have the information.
> > If you have the card in your physical possession, you can find out the
> > chipset using "cardctl ident".
>                  ^^^^^^^
> 
> That utility would of course be useful only with PCMCIA cards.  For PCI
> ones, the equivalent is lspci.
> 
> But you could alternatively just yank the card out for a moment and look
> at what's written on the card's largest chip.


Don't have it yet.  I am considering buying a Dell and want to make sure
it is going to be a good linux laptop.





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