On Sun, 16 May 2004, Scot L. Harris wrote: > 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. Were you able to try the hostap driver with this? There were links to prebuilt drivers for FC1 at fedora.us > > I looked at the madwifi drivers but as you indicated they appear to > support the atheros chipset. Yeah it is atheros only driver. From madwifi/README MADWIFI: Multimode Atheros Driver for WiFi on Linux > > 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. The default support of FC1/FC2 (as others have indicated) is primarily 'orinoco_cs' driver for very old Lucent 802.11b cards (prism-1 chipset?) For others - I guess you need to manually install madwifi/hostap/ndiswrapper or the appropriate dirver to get it working. Personally I've tried latest madwifi-snapshot with FC2(rawhide) and it worked for me. Satish
