Re: Wireless Network Cards
Magnus Therning wrote: On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 05:13:02PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: [snipped...] Your biggest problem will be to find out what chipset a specific card you are holding in your hands has. But every project I mentioned maintains some sort of compatiblity list. Yes, that is a BIG problem. Especially since quite a few manufacturers are in the habit of switching the chipset without disclosing that anywhere on the boxes :-( When I was shoping around I ended up buying from an online store that offered Linux compatible HW. It ended up being about £5 more (including shipping) but it was worth not having to worry about compatibility. The RT cards are also well supported in Linux, the package is called rt2500-source and the module can be built with module-assistant. I don't know what chipset is uses, but I bought a Linksys WMP54G card. One of the reviews said they'd got it running under Kubuntu via native support. I'm assuming I'll still need to install this wireless-tools package. Does anyone now what other kind of config I'll need to do, or will Debian just pick it up like any other network card...? Cheers, -- bob [at] bobarnott [dot] com http://www.bobarnott.com/ Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month. -- Wernher von Braun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless Network Cards
Am Donnerstag, 18. Mai 2006 18:19 schrieb Bob: Magnus Therning wrote: On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 05:13:02PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: [snipped...] Your biggest problem will be to find out what chipset a specific card you are holding in your hands has. But every project I mentioned maintains some sort of compatiblity list. Yes, that is a BIG problem. Especially since quite a few manufacturers are in the habit of switching the chipset without disclosing that anywhere on the boxes :-( When I was shoping around I ended up buying from an online store that offered Linux compatible HW. It ended up being about £5 more (including shipping) but it was worth not having to worry about compatibility. The RT cards are also well supported in Linux, the package is called rt2500-source and the module can be built with module-assistant. I don't know what chipset is uses, but I bought a Linksys WMP54G card. One of the reviews said they'd got it running under Kubuntu via native support. I'm assuming I'll still need to install this wireless-tools package. Does anyone now what other kind of config I'll need to do, or will Debian just pick it up like any other network card...? AFAIK there are not much wlan drivers in the kernel, so you have to find out which chipset your card uses (with lspci) and install the driver manually. Or maybe you are lucky and there is a package for that driver. And configuration depends on the driver. regards Christoph
Re: Wireless Network Cards
On May 08 2006, Magnus Therning wrote: The RT cards are also well supported in Linux, the package is called rt2500-source and the module can be built with module-assistant. I second that. I have D-Link cards with the rt chipsets and they work well for my needs under Linux. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless Network Cards
On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 15:42 +0100, Bob wrote: Hello list, I've never installed a PCI wireless network card before, I've always run my boxes with wires. However, I've moved to a new house and the easiest thing to do is put wireless cards in my boxes. Is it as easy as pluging the card in and it all just working, or do I need to install some other packages? I'm running Etch with a 2.6 kernel. # aptitude install wireless-tools you may need to compile some modules or whatnot, i compile my own kernels, so i cannot speak about the debian kernels. -- Matt Zagrabelny - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (218) 726 8844 University of Minnesota Duluth Information Technology Systems Services PGP key 1024D/84E22DA2 2005-11-07 Fingerprint: 78F9 18B3 EF58 56F5 FC85 C5CA 53E7 887F 84E2 2DA2 He is not a fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Wireless Network Cards
Bob: Is it as easy as pluging the card in and it all just working, or do I need to install some other packages? I'm running Etch with a 2.6 kernel. It depends on your card. And most probably (if you go out and just buy some random card) it will involve some work. It may even be impossible if you pick the wrong card. You might want to google around for supported cards. Chipsets which I have positive experience with are prism54, ipw2100, ipw2200 and the atheros chips (supported by madwifi). All except the latter one are in the vanilla kernel (but I don't think there are PCI versions of the ipw chips). It helps if you know how to compile a custom kernel and/or how to compile kernel modules against the appropriate linux-headers package. Your biggest problem will be to find out what chipset a specific card you are holding in your hands has. But every project I mentioned maintains some sort of compatiblity list. J. -- If I won the lottery I would keep all the money and wallpaper my house with it. [Agree] [Disagree] http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Wireless Network Cards
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 05:13:02PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: Bob: Is it as easy as pluging the card in and it all just working, or do I need to install some other packages? I'm running Etch with a 2.6 kernel. It depends on your card. And most probably (if you go out and just buy some random card) it will involve some work. It may even be impossible if you pick the wrong card. You might want to google around for supported cards. Chipsets which I have positive experience with are prism54, ipw2100, ipw2200 and the atheros chips (supported by madwifi). All except the latter one are in the vanilla kernel (but I don't think there are PCI versions of the ipw chips). It helps if you know how to compile a custom kernel and/or how to compile kernel modules against the appropriate linux-headers package. Your biggest problem will be to find out what chipset a specific card you are holding in your hands has. But every project I mentioned maintains some sort of compatiblity list. Yes, that is a BIG problem. Especially since quite a few manufacturers are in the habit of switching the chipset without disclosing that anywhere on the boxes :-( When I was shoping around I ended up buying from an online store that offered Linux compatible HW. It ended up being about £5 more (including shipping) but it was worth not having to worry about compatibility. The RT cards are also well supported in Linux, the package is called rt2500-source and the module can be built with module-assistant. /M -- Magnus Therning(OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. Here's the social reason that DRM fails: keeping an honest user honest is like keeping a tall user tall. -- Cory Doctorow, Microsoft Research DRM talk pgpDhnL7KvSQt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Wireless Network Cards
Magnus Therning wrote: snip Yes, that is a BIG problem. Especially since quite a few manufacturers are in the habit of switching the chipset without disclosing that anywhere on the boxes :-( When I was shoping around I ended up buying from an online store that offered Linux compatible HW. It ended up being about £5 more (including shipping) but it was worth not having to worry about compatibility. The RT cards are also well supported in Linux, the package is called rt2500-source and the module can be built with module-assistant. /M Ofcourse native Linux support is politically more correct. However ndiswrapper with the Windoze driver will also do the trick. Jan -- ** Do NOT use the reply-to address. You'll end up in the trash can ** Mail me at: jan AT schledermann D0T org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
