On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Gustavo Matheus Rahal wrote:
Hi
I did a search in the list and a lot of googling and didn't come to a conclusion about a good option of a PCMCIA Wireless card running on FC2. There was a discussion about a Orinoco card but with different opinions. I would like that people that had success setting a wireless card could give information about the card (the specific model) and how they did to get it to work. I think it would help a lot of people in the list.
Thanks Gustavo
This topic comes up so many times - and I'm sure there are lot of threads already in the archives.
Someone posted this link earlier - and I think its pretty useful lookup table - before you buy something (hopefully it is updated to match the newer models available)
http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz
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Best bets:
orinoco_cs - default FC1/FC2 - cards are prism-1? primarily very old lucent cards. airo - default FC2/(update kernel) - cisco cards
Others: atheros chipsets - madwifi driver (prebuild versions at http://atrpms.net/dist/fc2/madwifi/)
prism2/2.5/3 chipsets - HostAP driver (prebuild drivers at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1019) - alternative drivers http://prism54.org/ http://www.linux-wlan.org/
intel centrino - prebuilt drivers at http://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1494
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Personally I have the 'lucent silver' card - which works with the orinoco_cs driver. And an atheros based mini-pci - which works with madwifi driver.
Satish
