[ltp] Wireless PCMCIA cards?

[Mauro Maroni]

I have a Netgear WG511 (prism54 chipset) and it works great.


On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, morpheus wrote:

> 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
> > > 
> > > --
> > > The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:
> > > http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad
> > > 
> > 
> > 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
> 
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