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Last year I bought an IBM T30 Thinkpad, intending to install Linux on its hard drive sometime. Meanwhile, using a Knoppix LiveCD let me run Linux on the laptop while retaining the factory Windows XP installation. The notebook is my travel machine, so I also bought a Linksys WPC55AG PC Card wireless network adapter that supports 801.11a/b/g for the Thinkpad. For secure wireless Linux surfing, I was determined to find some configuration that would work with minimal intervention at boot time and that was easy enough that my wife could load it.
I have also run the WPC55AG on RH9, FC1 and now FC2. Now I'm not quite sure why the author of this story on "The Online Newspaper for Linux and Open Source" is running XP and doesn't just run Linux as his primary OS but I guess that's beside the point. With RH9 and FC1 if you have apt installed it's as easy as "apt-get install kernel-madwifi". For FC2 get the latest kernel (don't use the stock one) and get the madwifi CVS and just "make install". If you need more help on the Red Hats I would be more than happy to help. I have a few threads on the subject at my site, here's one:
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