On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 3:03 pm, Jason Greenwood wrote: > Ok all, I have decided to ditch the wires and go wireless for my ADSL > Modem/router/Accesspoint and NIC at home. What is the guts of it?? > Nowadays adsl modems and nic's almost always work with Linux (my Nokia > Modem/Router and Generic NIC work great under 9.1/Cooker). What are the > pitfalls to watch out for to go wireless? What websites for wirelss > under Linux do you recommend? Any brands known to work, not work with > Linux?? Right now on TradeMe.co.nz there seems to be a good deal on the > item listed below (thoughts?): > > Benq AWL-700 wireless router 802.11b > in perfect condition, as new still in box with manuals and cd WITH benq > 11Mbps wireless lan pc card(AWL100) both work together great. > > I can get these now for NZ$230 > > Cheers > > Jason Greenwood
There is a list of wireless cards and their drivers here http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html I know from experience that Mandrake works with anything Orinoco based works 'out of the box'. The Benq AWL100 uses the Prism 2.5 chip set which uses the wlan-ng driver which I know was not included in Mandrake 9.0 but I was able to get it working by compiling it. I do not know about Mandrake 9.1 HTH derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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