Novice question about laptops and wireless

[Virden, Larry W.]

Two questions for me to research. Thanks! I don't know the answers,
myself, and I'm uncertain how I'll go about finding out about it. But
the questions will go on a list of things to learn.


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-----Original Message-----
From:  Mark Haney


Virden, Larry W. wrote:
>  
> I've inherited a really old Dell laptop, on which is installed a 
> really old version of Redhat - I believe it is redhat 4. 

> The laptop does have a wireless card. I've never used a linux laptop 
> before, nor ever used wi-fi, so I'm uncertain what, if anything, I 
> need to do to go from booting the system to being able to actually 
> make use of the local library's free wi-fi network to access the
internet.
> 
> Does anyone have any pointers to useful guides, HOWTOs, books, or 
> whatever that would help someone as new to all of this as I?
> 

I really only have one or two questions about this.  Does the wireless
card work with RH4?  Back in that day wireless was still just about a
pipe dream.  And if it does, will any hotspot still support the protocol
that card uses?