On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 11:35 -0600, Jay Moore wrote: > On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 16:37, Mike Witt wrote: > > Can anyone recommend Wireless "G" PCI cards that work > > easily with FC2? > > There are no "G" cards that work with "out of the box" on any "free" OS > at the present time. This seems to be a result of the fact that the > manufacturers of the chipsets are unwilling to release the specs > necessary for developers to build the necessary drivers, and/or provide > the firmware under a licensing arrangement compatible with open-source > licensing. The card I have used for the past year is (now) close to an "out of the box" install. It only requires you to download its firmware, all else is included in FC2/3. Note that my card is PCMCIA form factor, but PCI should work just as easily. I am happy with the Prism54-based cards, at least for an isolated, home- based network. I have used a NetGear WG511 for almost one year now. The latest FC2/3 kernels include the driver - all that remains is to download the (small) firmware from http://www.prism54.org and copy it to /lib/firmware (note that this directory is different in FC2). The only thing that does not yet work is advanced encryption (unless there have been recent advances in development). Any of the cards referenced at the site above should work - just beware that several manufacturers seem to switch chipsets without using a new model number. Regards, Kevin Freeman
