On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 08:08:57PM -0500, J. Toman wrote:
>I just got a Linksys WPC11 and put it on my Mandrake 8.1 laptop. The
>module is obviously
The WPC11 uses a different chipset than most of the "low cost" cards.
Instead of the Prism II chipset, it's Boromax (?). Unfortunately, this
means that the "orinoco_cs" driver won't work, and you'll need to use the
wlan-ng driver (which I've never had success with).
I actually spent a few hours last weekend helping a local guy here try to
get the WPC11 working on his system. We finally gave up and he ordered a
Lucent Orinoco Silver card for $70 and it just worked...
Anyone getting wireless these days, I'd *HIGHLY* recommend getting an
Orinoco card. It's not worth futzing with anything else.
When I got my original 802.11b card, almost 2 years ago now, the Orinoco
cards were around $240 each, and the Adtron (Prism II) cards were around
$100. These days, the difference is much smaller. I was finally able to
get satisfactory operation by using the "orinoco_cs" driver, but it does
still tend to spew a bunch of messages to syslog (not to mention that
2.2.18's version of the driver just doesn't work).
The wvlan-cs driver was, when I last used it, just barely functional, and
didn't seem to be very maintained. The biggest problem I had was that the
machine would lock up for several 30 to 45 seconds whenever you shoved a
bunch of traffic across the link.
Sean
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