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Re: Getting Linksys Wifi PCI card working on an SGI O2

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But wait... is there no Linux driver for these WiFi PCI cards that
could be modified to work with Irix 6.5?

On Nov 17, 8:13 pm, peter popilopinous <brbt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm.. none of those cards are WiFi cards right? I have an O2 that is
> not anywhere near my router and was hoping to avoid running a cable.
> As there is no USB on the box, I guess there's no way to hook up WiFi.
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> I guess WiFi came out after the official death of Irix?
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> Peter
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> On Nov 17, 3:14 pm, a <a...@b.com> wrote:
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> > If you're trying to plug the WMP54G into the PCI slot in the O2, forget
> > about it unless you are willing to write an IRIX driver.  We're pretty
> > much stuck with these PCI boards on IRIX machines:
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> > 9210101 BOARD PCI BOARD SCSI ULTRA FAST & W
> > 9210102 BOARD PCI BOARD SYNCH COMM RS232
> > 9210103 BOARD PCI BOARD SYNCH X21 COMM
> > 9210104 BOARD PCI BOARD SYNCH V35 COMM
> > 9210105 BOARD PCI ETHERNET TX
> > 9210107 BOARD PCI FDDI UTP
> > 9210108 BOARD PCI FDDI SAS
> > 9210109 BOARD PCI FDDI DAS
> > 9210111 BOARD PCI CARD ISDN
> > 9210112 BOARD PCI SYNCH X21 COMM-TWC
> > 9210148 BOARD 1394 PCI CARD
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> > and the 3COM 3c996B-T gigabit Ethernet PCI card after a minor driver modification.
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> > Once the card is in with a driver, following steps similar to those in chapter 2's
> > "Gigabit Ethernet as Primary and Fast Ethernet as Secondary" section of the SGI
> > IRIS Gigabit Ethernet Board User's Guide athttp://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/browse.cgi?coll=0650&db=b...
> > would configure that port for use.

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Getting Linksys Wifi PCI card working on an SGI O2 peter popilopinous <brbttyl@gmail.com> - 2011-11-17 00:16 -0800
  Re: Getting Linksys Wifi PCI card working on an SGI O2 a <a@b.com> - 2011-11-17 18:14 -0500
    Re: Getting Linksys Wifi PCI card working on an SGI O2 peter popilopinous <brbttyl@gmail.com> - 2011-11-17 20:13 -0800
      Re: Getting Linksys Wifi PCI card working on an SGI O2 peter popilopinous <brbttyl@gmail.com> - 2011-11-17 20:19 -0800
        Re: Getting Linksys Wifi PCI card working on an SGI O2 abuse@127.0.0.1 - 2011-11-18 15:32 +0000

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