[wellylug] wlan adapter recommendations

[Pete Black]

Sounds like the Atheros chipset - this is supported by the madwifi  
drivers

http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/

I have used these drivers to get a PCMCIA WLAN card working as part of  
a Mandrake install for somebody from this list, and it indeed did  
perform very flakily with my 'ad-hoc' LAN, but I was told it  
subsequently worked great with a proper 802.11g access point.

-Pete


On 15/11/2004, at 4:59 PM, Jethro Carr wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 16:34, Andrew Tarr wrote:
>> On Mon Nov 15  4:24 , Andrew Tarr <andrewtarr at webmails.com> sent:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi, chaps.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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 Possibly the website is out of date, and there is now a driver in the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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