Dan Mueth wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anybody know whether the Orinoco USB wireless networking clients work
> with Linux?
Not at this stage. I have a D-Link DWL-120 (which is Atmel MAC talking to Orinoco (aka
Intersil Prism) chain), but getting the specs out of Atmel has proved difficult - NDA,
but no-one can seem to
send me it. If anyone has a good contact at Atmel, I'd love to hear from you.
I have also just asked SMC and Netgear about their respective products (SMC2662W and
MA101), to find out if they use the Orinoco MAC, and to try to get sample devices.
Nothing yet.
> Also, what speed could one expect from a USB networking device. The
> Orinoco products, including the USB client, claim to work at
> 11Mbit/s. However I was under the impression that USB runs at about
> 1.2MBit/s. Is that the speed I should expect?
USB low speed runs at 1.5Mbit/s, USB full speed runs at 12Mbit/s, and USB high speed
runs at 480Mbit/s.
There is quite a lot of overhead, so you can't get to the bit limit. At full speed
(12Mbps, you can get up to about 900kbps, but real throughput is probably around
600-700kbps with bulk queuing). With
high speed (USB 2.0 - 480Mbps) you can might get to around 30MBps
Brad
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