On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:16, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > I'm thinking about getting new wireless wireless card for laptop. But > I'd rather have something that already has a driver distributed with > Linux kernel, than something I need to compile/recompile every time > kernel is upgraded (or god forbid use Windows driver). > > The two I had my eyes on are Linksys Wireless-G (I'd prefer this one, > provided there's native Linux support) and SMC2835W EZ Connect G > Wireless. Both are PCMCIA (Cardbus) cards. Anybody using one of those > two cards? What drivers? Will they "just work" when plugged into Linux > box or do I need to download/compile drivers? > > Any other recommendations for Wireless PCMCIA/Cardbus cards (as long as > the card is "G" and driver is included with Fedora)? You will need to verify what chip set the particular card is that you get. I have a D-Link DWL-G650 (version 1 I think) that uses the prism chipset. I have been using the prism54 driver with it for well over a year now with no problems. I believe FC3 comes with prism54 driver now. However other versions of the DWL-G650 cards use different chip sets. I think I hears some use the atheros chip set but don't hold me to that. So the key is the chip set on the card. Manufactures (all of them I believe) have a habit of using the cheapest parts they can find for particular runs of cards without changing the model number, but most of them do change the version number. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx -- I love KATRINKA because she drives a PONTIAC. We're going away now. I fed the cat.
