From: Eran Tromer (eran_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Sat 09 Aug 2003 - 01:27:10 IDT
A report, as promised.
Short version:
Edimax EW-7115U (USB) works perfectly under Red Hat Linux 9.0.
Edimax EW-7106PC (PCMCIA) doesn't work under Knoppix 3.2.
Full version:
The Edimax EW-7115U works perfectly under RedHat 9.0, using the
"at76c503a" GPLed driver (http://at76c503a.berlios.de/).
Thre's another GPLed driver for it which probably also works
(http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/) -- it recognizes the device,
but at the time I didn't have a peer to test it against.
I tested Edimax EW-7106PC under Knoppix 3.2 using binary-only driver
from Realtek
(http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloads1-3.aspx?Keyword=rtl8180).
They only have drivers for RedHat 9.0 and 8.0, SuSE 8.2 and "gcc 2.9X".
I tried the RedHat 9.0 driver, which seems closest to Knoppix.
It did *not* work -- all looks fine, but it doesn't connect to anything,
and by what it broadcasts I suspect that it's silently ignoring some
configuration commands. The problem may be due to a mismatch between
Knoppix and RedHat 9.0's kernel wireless extensions version, so it may
very well work on the latter (hey, they advertise it as such).
Eran
On 2003/07/23 19:11, Eran Tromer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Both the Edimax EW-7106 (PCMCIA) and Edimax EW-7115U (USB but very
> compact) are supposed to work well under Linux.
>
> At pchardware.co.il they sell for 245NIS and 280NIS respectively (you
> may want to do a zap.co.il lookup). That's cheaper than the unsupported
> D-Link DWL-650+. No 22Mbps, though.
>
> I'll receive both adapters soon; e-mail me in a couple of weeks to get a
> report.
>
> Eran
>
>
>
> On 2003/07/23 18:05, Shay Elkin wrote:
>
>> As I don't wish to buy a card just to find out I can't really use it,
>> can any of you recommend a supported (I'm willing to use binary
>> drivers, if no other alternative exists) 802.11b cardbus/PCMCIA card,
>> along with a local vendor that sells it?
>
>
>
>
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