[ltp] Wireless PCMCIA cards?

[morpheus]

I have the built-in Atheros chipset on my T42p and though madwifi worked
like a charm at first, every time I upgrade the kernel the drivers
break, which means getting the latest CVS and recompiling, and hoping
the latest CVS works on your kernel.  I'm actually prevented from
installing kernel 2.6.9 because the madwifi drivers wouldn't compile,
and I tracked down several patches, none of which worked.  No offence to
the madwifi team, they do a great job considering Atheros is pretty
anti-Open Source (I hear) and they have to do a lot of reverse
engineering.
Anyway, I would suggest a chipset that is supported in the vanilla
kernel.  I have heard that orinoco and prism are, though others probably
know more about it than me.
-m

On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 14:23, Michael Perry wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:11:08 +0000, Alan Scruton Glasby
> <asg@theideasforge.org> wrote:
> > Greetings!  Before going totally cross-eyed in my quest to find a
> > wireless card so that I can use my router and etc on ADSL does
> > anyone  know (a) of a card that works and (b) where to get the thing?
> > And yes,I *do* pore over the exellent sourceforge net and *linmodems*.
> > Suspect thet root of problem is that all the possible suppliers within
> > 20-miles radius kmow only the products of the Sage of Seattle.
> > asg
> > 
> > --
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> > 
> 
> You could always go with the Orinoco Classic Gold cards. I've had them
> working for a long time with Linux.  They do 802.11b very well and I
> have had them working with a variety of routers including a Linksys
> WRT54G, a Netgear, and a Lucent/Orinoco AP200.  I also have been using
> the linuxant drivers which allow windows-only 54G wireless card like
> the WPC54G to work with a variety of Linux distributions.  They are at
> www.linuxant.com.  You could also use the ndiswrapper at
> ndiswrapper.sf.net (I think).
> 
> I use Debian Unstable here so all I have to do is add the
> wireless-tools package and get a kernel with orinoco support.
> 
> I think you should be able to also find cards based on the atheros
> chipset and use the madwifi drivers and there are probably a group of
> yet other cards that work very well thta others can tell you about.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Michael Perry
> meperry@gmail.com