On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:22:38PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > 2. What recommended PCMCIA cards are there that work with Linux? > > That really depends. I did a small research when I was working at > Softier on these issues, and I can recommend 3 solutions: > > A. If you want full open source (no binary only firmwares, binary only > modules) then you'll probably won't find something better then 11MBPS > based cards support (like Cisco's PCMCIA wi-fi cards). > B. Prism G series bases PCMCIA cards have good Linux support with > binary objects (think like NVidia's binary module which can be linked > to any linux kernel) and it can go up to 55MBPS on 802.11G. > C. If you don't mind a full binary only solution for Linux with tons > of wi-fi PCMCIA cards (and some PCI cards) then you should try > LinuxAnt's DriverLoader which works very nice. Note - you'll need the > Windows drivers for those cards since it's using some NDISWAN tricks > to make the driver load as a kernel module + some of their stuff - see > http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/?PHPSESSID=a95e3de0243b4cf48b970b3e1abba838 > for the program as well as what it supports..
Regarding Windows drivers on Linux, I'd also like to recommend another great piece of work named ndiswrapper [1]. I ended up using ndiswrapper because the 3Com PCMCIA card 802.11g card that I ordered turned out to be a "WinModem"-like piece of hardware. And how did I let that happen? Well, it's not that I didn't check the compatibility list on the web [2], it just happens to be that the same product model ID could have two completely different versions. Just something you need to be very aware about when ordering wireless equipment, I fell on this twice. * [1] http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ * [2] http://www.linux-wlan.org/ -- Dan Aloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
