Newbie with dumb questions...

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I am using a USB wireless device on my PPC machine FWIW, a D-Link DWL-122 802.11b dongle.  The setup on YDL 4 was hairy, but I've done it a couple of times now and it's not so bad.  Some pointers are on my blog somewhere www.pycs.net/users/0000337.
It works very reliably under Linux, and if you dig for the fall '04 drivers on the net, it works acceptably under OS X.  It worked very very badly on OS X with previous drivers, as in hard lockups and sleep of death a la vintage Mac OS...
It cost me $33 US...

As far as Real or WMP content, I have not tried streaming.  I have lots of luck playing Windows media files with Xine, which is available from freshrpms in yum.  I would like to try VLC, it works great under Windows and OS X and OpenBSD...

I have not tried "peekameeka" (pcmcia) cards under YDL, I would check the docs on the Web site and mailing list archive if you don't get any advice here...

You may just need to modprobe pcmcia-cs.ko or somesuch, load the pcmcia support from modules.

Worst case you may have to build a driver from linux-wlan-ng source, which is what I had to do for my D-Link.

Good luck from one scrap heap computer connoisseur to another (just installed Slackware on a 486 laptop last night, via parallel port zip drive)...

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