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   From: Josiah Jenkins    
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   Subject: Re: PCMCIA Wireless Network Card - USR 5410   
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   Whilst perusing Usenet on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:40:40 -0700, I read   
   these words from ray  :   
      
   >IMHO ndiswrapper is not a very good solution.   
      
   Perhaps it's not the ideal solution but if it works . . .   
      
   Wine probably isn't the ideal solution for running Windows   
   programs, but thousands (?) of people use it !   
   >   
   >A much better one is to use a wireless card with an Atheros   
   >or other good supported chipset - like the Dlink WNA2330   
      
   Fine, if you're starting from scratch and buying new kit.   
      
   However, I already had a USR router, USR PCI card in   
   the old desktop and three (3) USR PCMCIA cards.   
   >   
   >- it worked 'out of the box' for me on 6.06 Ubuntu.   
      
   As did all of the above US Robotics stuff for me,   
   under both W2K and Win XP Pro.    
      
   It just seemed sensible to try to use the existing kit that I owned   
   before buying a new card from a different manufacturer which   
   might, or might not, have problems with 'talking' to the existing   
   USR set-up.   
      
   I learned about the inherent problems in failing to 'match'   
   components from different manufacturers a long time ago   
   (the hard way) when I used to build my own computers.   
      
   FWIW, I do now have the card running under Ubuntu !   
      
   Next problem to solve is a networked Dell laser printer.   
      
   -- jjj   
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