[TriLUG] Keyboard

Douglas Ward dward at nccumc.org
Mon Aug 7 13:49:51 EDT 2006


I don't remember the exact model.  I ran through all of the ndiswrapper
drivers and none of them worked though.  After googling on it I found that
many people  who had the same card couldn't make it work in Linux.

On 8/5/06, Matt Pusateri <mpusateri at wickedtrails.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, August 2, 2006 9:04 am, Douglas Ward wrote:
> > I need to remove the keyboard on my Dell Latitude D620 laptop to
> > install a
> > wireless card that should (hopefully) be supported by Linux.  My Dell
> > sales
> > rep assured me that the card would work.  We all know they know what
> > they
> > are talking about when it comes to linux support.  Any ideas as to how
> > to
> > remove the keyboard?  The documentation that comes with the card says
> > to
> > reference the laptop documentation.  A check there doesn't say
> > anything
> > about this.  Surely someone out there purchased a shiny new laptop
> > (like I
> > did) that had an unsupported wireless card snugly hidden below the
> > keyboard...
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> What wireless card is it?  I've got a D620 with a ipw3945 that's
> working under fc5.  The other cards that dell puts in that laptop are
> all dell truemobil cards that worth with ndiswrapper.
>
> Matt P.
>
>
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