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Forum: PCMCIA Wireless Network Adapter Issues
Re: Cannot config. WaveLan IEEE Turbo after kernel upgrade (Tim DIckerson)
Date: 2000, Jul 19
From: David Hinds <dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org>

I would carefully compare the PCMCIA messages under the 2.2.15 and 2.2.16 kernels, to see if the card is being configured any differently. There should not be a problem with 2.2.16. -- Dave

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