On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 22:14, Michael wrote: > As always with wireless in linux, suggestions at any given point in time > seems to be the key to getting something that works. Yay changelogs! > > Does anybody have any experience or is there any PCMCIA 802.11g card out > there that will work well with FC2 'native'? Or some card out there that > has relatively decent drivers written for linux. This is something my > little sister was asking me about as she pretty much depends on wireless. > She doesn't have much experience with linux and am not around her to > answer her questions, but she wants to learn and become more comfortable. > And it is not like I know much about this anyways, all my experience is > with Prism 2.5 and Realtek 8180 802.11b chipsets. I've always been happy > enough with the prism 2.5 and linux-wlan drivers, but she wants 'g'. > > I'd prefer not having to use ndiswrapper to emulate windows drivers. I > would much rather spend extra money if need be to support a company that > 'does' give out specification to opensource, or develop their own decent > linux drivers. (decent as in what the Realtek 8180 drivers are not) > > Thanks, > Michael Linux and wireless I believe are going remain a problem area for some time. I have been using a D-Link DWL-G650 card for some time now. I used the prism54 driver which you can find on the web. After getting it all set up it has worked very well. The only issue I have with this solution is that in the Network configuration GUI the card is not identified correctly even though it still works. WEP can be configured through the GUI interface. Just make sure you tell it NOT to start at boot time. (this is personal nit for me) It will startup automatically when the pcmcia services are started. I use it to connect to a Linksys router that supports G protocol. It also appears to work well with kismet/gkismet. I can't say it is the best card out there but it does the job. -- Scot L. Harris <webid@xxxxxxxxxx>
