Toby Cubitt wrote: >On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 06:05:56PM +1000, Devraj Mukherjee wrote: > > >>I am looking to switch to wireless networking and am unsure of which >>cards are well supported under Linux? I am looking for PCI styled cards >>and preferably ones that can do 54Mbps. >> >>Any experiences, suggestions? >> >> > >I recently successfully set up my gentoo box as a wireless access point using >a D-link DWL-G520, which is based on the Atheros chipset so is supported by >the madwifi driver (in portage). It does 54Mbps, and setting it up was >hassle-free for me. > > > Wait a min, I thought that Prism-based cards are the only ones which are capable of working as Access points, how did you manage this?
>Atheros-based cards are probably your safest bet nowadays, since newer >Prism-based cards aren't supported by the linux Prism driver. After the Prism >driver, the madwifi driver is probably the most mature, at least from what >I've read. > >The only thing I haven't got working with it yet is WPA encryption. Apparently >it is possible, just not well documented at the moment. WEP is working fine >though. (If anyone has any tips on how to get WPA working, I'd love to hear >them!) > >HTH, > >Toby > > Sorry cannot help, but am interested in this, because its getting harder for me to find new cards with the older prism chipsets to use as access points. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
