NCR/AT&T/Lucent WaveLAN 915MHz ISA Cards

I have some old ISA NCR/AT&T/Lucent WaveLAN half length 915MHz cards
that I'd like to experiment with. I'm having very little luck
finding information about these cards on the Internet. I know,
they're older than dirt but I'd like to experiment with these cards
a bit more. (I got 3 of them for a total of $6... ) Using the
p2pdiag utility that came with the DOS install disks, each card is able
to see the other and transfer packets... so the cards are working.

My problem is it looks like development of the older DSSS WaveLAN cards
has slowly slipped away. From what I gather, the last Linux kernel to
support the cards natively was 2.2. Like I said, I've found very
little on the topic. Can anyone confirm this for me?

I've installed Fedora 3, Fedora 1, RH9, and RH6.1 (I would have went
with 7.x but I don't have a CD at this time). I've also tried
FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.3 snapshot. (I couldn't get FreeBSD to even
recognize the cards) The only Linux distro to not slow down the
computer when I issued a modprobe wavelan io=0x300 was 6.1.

With not much info on the Internet, I'm having a hard time. Is
anyone currently using these cards for a P2P link in a Linux/FreeBSD
environment? If someone IS currently using these dinosaurs, could you
please let me know what your hardware/config is?

This is what I've found so far that suggests I need an older kernel:

http://lists.samba.org/archive/wirel...ly/002608.html

I was able to install Redhat 7.3 and get the cards up and running.