[ltp] OT: ALL0792 g-wireless works great

[André Wyrwa]

Hei,

it's just for those interested and because we were at the topic:
I got the ALL0792 yesterday.
It works like a snap with fli4l 2.1.7 in master mode (aka AP), so if you
need a PCI g-wireless card for some reason, i can recommend this one. I
get a 54MBit connection from the thinkpad (only tested under win) and so
far it seems pretty stable, too.

(If you use the prism54 driver, don't take 1.2, it's said to be somewhat
unstable. Use CVS instead.)

André.


On Die, 2004-08-10 at 16:46, Mauro Maroni wrote:
> 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
> > 
> >