On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 13:15, Satish Balay wrote: > On Sun, 16 May 2004, Scot L. Harris wrote: > > > Since I am not having much luck with the D-link DWL-G650 or the Linksys > > WPC54G wireless cards with FC1 I figure I should get a recommendation > > for something that works. > > > > Was looking at the Proxima Orinoco 802.11a/b/g gold combocard. Has > > anyone used this with FC1? Does it have any restrictions? (will it > > work with monitoring software?) > > Can you do lspci on the 'dlink' and see what it says? I've seen > some remark it as atheros - and some as prism. Does it have '802.11a'? > > Usually 802.11a supported cards are atheros chipset based. With > atheros - there is a chance that you can get it working with madwifi > driver. > > I use a mini-pci card 'IBM a/b' with I believe has an atheros 5211 > chipset. The a/b/g cards could be Atheros 5212 chipset. > > One way to find this info is with 'lspci'. I get > 02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5211 802.11ab NIC (rev 01) > > I used to get numeric nubers here (which could be matched with entries > in the madwifi source). Do'nt know who does the translation now .. > > 02:02.0 Class 0200: 168c:0012 (rev 01) > > Satish The lspci actually seems to see the D-Link card 02:00.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor D-Links DWL-g650 A1 (rev 01) Based on discussions with D-link tech support and looking at the windows files provided it appeared this card uses a prisim chip set. May be wrong about that but all indications led me to that conclusion. This card supports only b and g protocols. I looked at the madwifi drivers but as you indicated they appear to support the atheros chipset. At present I am looking for a solution to either get the D-link DWL-G650, the linksys WPC54G or buy another card that will work. Any recommendations? Does FC2 have better wireless support? I am willing to install that when it is available. Thanks for the response. -- Scot L. Harris <webid@xxxxxxxxxx>
