[wellylug] wlan adapter recommendations

Jethro Carr dodocaptain at paradise.net.nz
Mon Nov 15 16:59:50 NZDT 2004


On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 16:34, Andrew Tarr wrote:
> On Mon Nov 15  4:24 , Andrew Tarr <andrewtarr at webmails.com> sent:
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> >Hi, chaps. 
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> >I was wondering whether anyone can recommend a good wifi card for linux.  In particular, does anyone have any comment on the card 
> >available in Dick Smith's, which appears to do 802.11 a/b/g , claims to support linux 2.4 and 2.6 (but only in something called 'infrastructure 
> >mode') and is priced at $124 or so, which strikes me as very reasonable?
> 
> Oh, to be a little more specific, I can't find any details on the chipset in question, either on the back of the box or on the website.   I have 
> heard that sometimes things which claim to support linux (and I seem to recall this with regard to DSE) have a binary-only driver which doesn't 
> do everything you'd like and only works with one kernel version, so I'd prefer getting something that has an open-source driver maintained by 
> the kernel team, which would hopefully mean that such a card would enjoy ongoing support in Linux. 

I think I've found the chipset. (I could be wrong though)

The DSE site simply says under chipset 'AR5212'.

Using google I matched it to this website:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.802.11ag.html#AtherosGPL
The description of the card matches the DSE card & it has the same
number.

Sadly the site says that there is no working driver. This makes me
wonder how DSE claims it has linux support.

Possibly the website is out of date, and there is now a driver in the
newer linux kernels. I had a look at the linux 2.6.8.1 kernel, but
couldn't find any drivers for it. It may possibly work under another
card's driver - a lot of hardware is fairly simular now.


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-- Jethro

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