On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Robert F. Chapman wrote:
Would anyone have suggestions for the best supported/performance
Wireless Notebook(pcmcia) Network Adapter to use in FC5. I have two
types and neither work or work well.
Anything with an atheros chipset. if you can do minipci intel 2200/2915 is
nice as well.
One is a Linksys Wireless G with Speedboost WPC54GS V1 and does not work
at all. and the other is a really old leArity 802.11b which works, but
without WEP encryption.
Thanks,
Robert
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 17:46 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 10:22 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Friday 21 April 2006 10:13, Alexander Mamchenkov wrote:
Hi,
I have a Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100, and the ipw2100 driver is now in the
kernel (Later FC4 kernels also have it). It appears rock solid (although
the version in the current FC5 kernel is 1.1.3 and thus does not yet
support WPA I think... WEP should be fine though.)
I have Intel(R) PRO/WIreless 2200 and it works pretty fine with ipw2200.
The only thing I had to do was to update the firmware. I also found out
that I have some problems on newer kernels (after I do update), but it
works pretty fine on the kernel supplied on FC5 installation CDs
I also use NetworkManager, which I would also suggest is much more stable
in FC5 than it was in FC4 - With this running things really did "just
work" for me after installing FC5, which was not the case for FC4. I
haven't had to do a single bit of network setup and the wireless connects
fine, and plays well with my ethernet connection "Broadcom 4400
10/100BaseT"
Since I use KDE I use KWifiManager and it works fine.
Do you use encryption? I have a laptop with the same ipw2200, which will be
upgraded soon, and I want to use WPA-PSK, just as I can in the windows setup.
Anne, have you looked at ndiswrapper? It allows you to use the wireless
win32 drivers under linux. Therefore you gain all the capabilities
thereof, including WPA-PSK. Livna maintains the ndiswrapper packages.
There is one caveat. You have to recompile the kernel to raise the
stack level from 4 to 16. They recommend at least 16 stacks for
win32/ndiswrapper drivers. There may be someone out there that's
already packaged the latest FC5 kernel with 16k stacks.
BTW, subject change...you should pick up the latest copy of that UK
magazine, LinuxUser & Developer; they've got a section called "The Linux
Invaders", How free software took over Hollywood. Over half the
magazine is themed about Linux in Hollywood; I figured you might find
that interesting. It's issue #59 and it was still in Barnes & Nobles as
of last night.
LX
--
°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
Kites rise highest against the wind -- not with it.
-- Winston Churchill
Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/
°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
--
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2
