On Saturday 15 November 2003 10:23 pm, Heitzso wrote: > I've tried two pcmcia cards after doing some research and > have problems with both. First was d-link 650 which used > to be prism2 and supposed to work but newer ones are no > longer prism & require proprietary drivers. > > Took that back and picked up netgear > but the newer netgear pcmcia 802.11b is also no longer > prism2 but realtek. I tried downloading and building the > realtek driver but it didn't work. I _really_ want to avoid > proprietary object code that close to the kernel so plan on > taking it back tomorrow. > > The store I got the other two at also has the Microsoft USB > 802.11b standalone gizmo. I'm allergic to MSoft but if that's > the way to go, so be it. > > I could also drive an hour and go to a bigger computer store > in Atlanta for some other brand/model. > > So, what works well with gentoo (802.11b wise)? > > Or please point me to a forum/web page that's up to date. > > Thanks, > Heitzso > I'm using the Belkin F5D6050 USB Wireless adapter and have been pretty happy with it. Instead of the atmelwlan driver, I'm using the alternate driver available from: http://at76c503a.berlios.de/
emerge hotplug, and run "make" and "make install" on this driver's source, and it works great! I'm currently running Debian on the laptop that uses this adapter. I used to run Gentoo on it, and as I recall, the driver and adapter worked just fine under Gentoo, as well. --Tony -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
