[ltp] Wireless LAN PCMCIA card

[Mauro Maroni]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, André Wyrwa wrote:

> I used to use a Linkpro WL2000C in my T23, first. Then i switched to
> using a Netgear MA701 compact flash card within an CFtoPCMCIA adaptor,
> which also worked great. Both are prism based. The linkpro worked with
> the standard driver, while the netgear required the spectrum24 driver,
> because it doesn't have the firmware in the card.
> 
> If you want to go for g type wireless you should take care to get an
> atheros, prism or texas instruments chip. Lots of PCMCIA cards in this
> area are using prism chips, the driver (prism54) is also quite evolved.
> For atheros you will need madwifi, which also seems to be quite evolved.
> Lastly for texas instruments chips driver development started rather
> recently. So this shouldn't be your first choice.
> 
> Concerning an access point...i'll upgrade my fli4l based linux router to
> g-wireless soon, using a Allnet ALL0792 PCI card (prism). Don't know if
> you should consider this a recommendation. ;-)
> 
> Regards,
> André.

That sounds good. I had forgotten to mention that I was thinking on 
g-wireless too. Thanks everyone for the answers.

Regards,
Mauro


> 
> 
> On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 23:02, Mauro Maroni wrote:
> > Hello everybody:
> > 
> > I am planning to purchase a wireless AP to be used at home, and also a 
> > PCMCIA wireless card for my TP600E and T20 machines.
> > Any recommendation for that? I am just looking for a card not very hard to 
> > configure in Linux, good performance and compatibility (what else can I 
> > expect? :-)
> > Any suggestion is welcome. I am using Slackware with 2.4.X kernels at this 
> > moment, but will move to 2.6.x soon
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Mauro
> 
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