[newbie] Wireless Notebook Card
Can anyone recommend a good wireless notebook card that has Linux support/drivers (Mandrake 9.2.1)? Thanks, Mike
Re: [newbie] Wireless Notebook Card
On Saturday 14 February 2004 00:55, lanman wrote: HarM; Look over your shoulder Dude! No! The other shoulder! See ? That's me lining up behind you for that wireless card! If I find anything, I'll let you know, and hopefully, vice-versa ? Ahah that was you, the hot breath in my neck all the time;) Yeah, I'm looking...all over e-bay too...they're hard to find. I've only found one untill now. That's a linksys that uses prism1 chipsruns with the orrinoco driver. Still got 3 more (older) laptops to go, though admittedly even finding wired cards for them is getting hard. On the other hand the Sitecom version 1 cards have prism2 chips and so do the Belkin version 1 (version 2 and up run atmel chips) but the sitecom is a cardbus afaik, so that would be slot 2 :( If you've got PCMCIA slot 2 there's probably a USB slot too, so use thatthe Sitecom wl_012 works fine using the prism2_usb module with a few workarounds. I did get a Sweex PCI card to play ball (as well as a cardbus) but not more than 5.5Mb bitrate. These use rtl18080 ver2 chips...stay away from them if you can, only broadcom is worse. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless Notebook Card
On Friday 13 February 2004 07:23 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 00:55, lanman wrote: HarM; Look over your shoulder Dude! No! The other shoulder! See ? That's me lining up behind you for that wireless card! If I find anything, I'll let you know, and hopefully, vice-versa ? Ahah that was you, the hot breath in my neck all the time;) Yeah, I'm looking...all over e-bay too...they're hard to find. I've only found one untill now. That's a linksys that uses prism1 chipsruns with the orrinoco driver. Still got 3 more (older) laptops to go, though admittedly even finding wired cards for them is getting hard. On the other hand the Sitecom version 1 cards have prism2 chips and so do the Belkin version 1 (version 2 and up run atmel chips) but the sitecom is a cardbus afaik, so that would be slot 2 :( If you've got PCMCIA slot 2 there's probably a USB slot too, so use thatthe Sitecom wl_012 works fine using the prism2_usb module with a few workarounds. I did get a Sweex PCI card to play ball (as well as a cardbus) but not more than 5.5Mb bitrate. These use rtl18080 ver2 chips...stay away from them if you can, only broadcom is worse. Good luck, HarM I use an Adaptec AWN-8030. It's a Prism2 and is easy to configure if you're not as technologically impaired as I am. Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless Notebook Card
On February 13, 2004 07:23 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 00:55, lanman wrote: HarM; Look over your shoulder Dude! No! The other shoulder! See ? That's me lining up behind you for that wireless card! If I find anything, I'll let you know, and hopefully, vice-versa ? Ahah that was you, the hot breath in my neck all the time;) Hey! I wasn't standing THAT close ! LOL! Yeah, I'm looking...all over e-bay too...they're hard to find. I've only found one untill now. That's a linksys that uses prism1 chipsruns with the orrinoco driver. Still got 3 more (older) laptops to go, though admittedly even finding wired cards for them is getting hard. On the other hand the Sitecom version 1 cards have prism2 chips and so do the Belkin version 1 (version 2 and up run atmel chips) but the sitecom is a cardbus afaik, so that would be slot 2 :( If you've got PCMCIA slot 2 there's probably a USB slot too, so use thatthe Sitecom wl_012 works fine using the prism2_usb module with a few workarounds. I did get a Sweex PCI card to play ball (as well as a cardbus) but not more than 5.5Mb bitrate. These use rtl18080 ver2 chips...stay away from them if you can, only broadcom is worse. Good luck, HarM HarM; Have a look at this site; http://www.gvc.ca They too have the atmel chip cards in G format. None of the lists I've seen mention them, so I'm not sure if they'd work or not, but I sometimes do Linux testing for them, so I'm going to call them for a demo unit and see what's what. I'll keep you posted because they have a great deal on a G-rated router and laptop card in a bundle for under $180.00 Canadian. Lanman -- Registered Linux user #190712 Smart IT people are staring out the window into the eye of a giant penguin! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Wireless Notebook Card
On Saturday 14 February 2004 01:40, lanman wrote: HarM; Have a look at this site; http://www.gvc.ca I just havethey look OK but suffer from the same lack as most retailers do; they won't/can't tell exactly what chips they're using. Alas their cards are all cardbus too, so no slot 1. I don't think slot 1 even exists for G cards. Their pricing is right on the mark but as for testing AFAIK only prism2 supports HostAP in the linux kernel so that would be a point minus. On the other hand they wouldn't be selling routers if the same trick could be done on Windows, would they?:) You'll be having fun testing them, that's for sure.atmels are like reluctant kids; you have to drag them over:) Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
