From: Dan Aloni (da-x_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Wed 05 Jan 2005 - 23:58:51 IST
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:22:38PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> > 2. What recommended PCMCIA cards are there that work with Linux?
>
> That really depends. I did a small research when I was working at
> Softier on these issues, and I can recommend 3 solutions:
>
> A. If you want full open source (no binary only firmwares, binary only
> modules) then you'll probably won't find something better then 11MBPS
> based cards support (like Cisco's PCMCIA wi-fi cards).
> B. Prism G series bases PCMCIA cards have good Linux support with
> binary objects (think like NVidia's binary module which can be linked
> to any linux kernel) and it can go up to 55MBPS on 802.11G.
> C. If you don't mind a full binary only solution for Linux with tons
> of wi-fi PCMCIA cards (and some PCI cards) then you should try
> LinuxAnt's DriverLoader which works very nice. Note - you'll need the
> Windows drivers for those cards since it's using some NDISWAN tricks
> to make the driver load as a kernel module + some of their stuff - see
> http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/?PHPSESSID=a95e3de0243b4cf48b970b3e1abba838
> for the program as well as what it supports..
Regarding Windows drivers on Linux, I'd also like to recommend
another great piece of work named ndiswrapper [1].
I ended up using ndiswrapper because the 3Com PCMCIA card 802.11g
card that I ordered turned out to be a "WinModem"-like piece of
hardware.
And how did I let that happen? Well, it's not that I didn't check
the compatibility list on the web [2], it just happens to be that
the same product model ID could have two completely different
versions. Just something you need to be very aware about when
ordering wireless equipment, I fell on this twice.
* [1] http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/
* [2] http://www.linux-wlan.org/
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