On 27 Aug 2002, Paul Iadonisi wrote: > On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 19:38, Ken Ambrose wrote: > > IMHO, stay the hell away from Prism chipsets (eg. the Linksys cards). > > You have to play all sorts of games with re-compiling: > > - your kernel > > - PCMCIA stuff from Sourceforge > > - linux-wlan drivers > > > > None of this may necessary if you have a stock kernel -- they try to have > > stock binaries at the linux-wlan site. Andy maybe someone's had an easier > > time of it than me. But I've tried, twice, to get the darn drivers > > working. The first time, after ages, I got it going, under RH 7.1. I > > also finally got it working under 7.3... but now none of my /other/ > > PCMCIA/Cardbus network cards work. It's really, really, really annoying. > > I think I'd have to agree, here. That's why I took Tom Buskey's > earlier advice and returned the Linksys WPC11v22 today. I'm looking at > the possibility of getting a Cisco 350. I tried one today and was > astonished that it required *zero* tweaking of my Red Hat 7.3 > distribution. I plugged it in, and had an address in seconds (on eth0 > instead of that funky wlan0). It is quite a bit more expensive (~$140 > vs. ~$90), but when I see something work out of the box like that, I > don't mind paying more for it.
I can second this. Like most things I've found with Cisco, it's expensive, but it works. Cisco also provide a driver and a port of their ACU utility for Linux. It allows you to setup various profiles (Home, work etc..) and check Link quality, strength etc... > My experience, of course, was exacerbated by the Linksys > WPC11v3/WAPv2.2 incompatibility. I *did* manage to get the WPC11v3 > working without rebuilding my kernel, but I had to jump through a number > of hoops. The available rpms available for the linux-wlan drivers run a > bit behind, as well (v0.14 of linux-wlan for 2.4.18-5 of the kernel > where 0.15-pre4 is out and so is the 2.4.18-10 kernel errata), so I had > to try building my own. I was about to dive into that until I had such > an easy time with the Cisco and decided to can the Linksys. I also have a 3Com card (based on the Spectrum24_T chipset) and this is now fairly easy to use in Linux. Though in the beginning it was a nightmare. --rdp -- Rich Payne http://talisman.mv.com _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss