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On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 21:45 -0500, Steven Wheeler wrote:
> I am attempting to resurrect my old Toshiba Portege 3110CT laptop
> Installed Slackware 12.2 on it and all is working well except for my
> WG511v1.

Sorry for being blunt, but please don't expect anyone who is busy
hacking wireless drivers to pull Slackware 12.1 and see what kernel
version it has.

> I have reached my knowledge limit and if anyone has a suggestion to try I
> would appreciate it.  I am really hoping I can use this card since money is
> tight right now

Understood.

> Mar 21 21:29:01 PopsLT kernel: p54: unknown eeprom code : 0x1
> Mar 21 21:29:01 PopsLT kernel: p54: unknown eeprom code : 0x3

If I remember correctly, it's harmless.

Since you are using a softmac driver, and you kernel is likely old, you
have basically two options.

1) Try the fullmac driver (prism54).
2) Try compat-wireless.

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Pavel Roskin
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