My biggest objection is that the Airlink routers seemed to be a bit behind in terms of protocol feature support.
----- Original Message ----- From: DJA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Main Discussion List for KPLUG" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Wifi PCI card woes Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 21:11:00 -0800 > > Lan Barnes wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 01:30:46PM -0800, Todd Walton wrote: > > > >> On 11/13/05, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> Completely agreed. I have extensive experience. Airlink is a pest. > >> > >> I've never had a problem with Airlink ethernet cards or routers. > >> > >> -todd > >> > > > > > > Please *please* share your experience. <Lan to Todd -- I need you, man!> > > > > 1. What does lspci list their chip sets as? > > > > 2. What drivers do you use? > > > > 3. Are you using special sacrifices, incantations, or incense? > > My laptop uses an Intel wireless card, which is very well > supported. But even it has problems. Unfortunately, there is still > a lot of grief with WiFi on Linux. > > Variables which affect whether or not your card will work, and how well, are > > o Motherboard Chipsets > o Kernel version > o Distribution > o Driver module (software) > o Firmware (if any on card) > o ACPI > o Various other libraries and > o Network drivers > o System scripts > > To keep my card working with each new kernel and networking-related > library/driver update, I monitor several developer mailing lists: > > ACPI4Asus > ACPI4Linux > HostAP > IPW2200 > > From following (and posting to) these lists, I have learned that > today your WiFi card works. Tonight you run yum update, and > tomorrow your WiFi card doesn't work (right). As Linux patches and > updates come pretty frequently now (especially for Fedora - and I > don't mean just major releases), there is always a likelihood your > your card will stop working at some point. To keep my laptop > stable, I am still using an older version of kernel 2.6.12 until I > have the time to fiddle with any new problems. > > How bad is it really? Most of the WiFi-related networking stuff in > still pre-1.0, and the rest is barely 1.0. > > I recommend that you find someone who is running the same hardware, > Distro, and kernel as you, and then pick the same card they are > using. > > I found enough useful info through Googling to get my card working, > including a patch sent to me from someone with the same basic > configuration (although different distro). > > Another thing you can try is running your card under Ndiswrapper which > basically is the Windows driver wrapped in Linux tendrils. > > Another problem is that some drivers may fight with each other: > dhclient, NetworkManager, Wireless Extensions (Wireless Tools), > WPA_supplicant, various scripts, etc. > > I have had good luck so far using NetworkManager under KDE. But I > still often have to stop-start the network service, NetworkManager, > NetworkManagerInfo, and dhclient manually after boot. > > (Did you know that the Network GUI utility in Gnome/KDE supports > profiles? I found that helpful in keeping Ethernet and WiFi > settings away from each other.) > > Feel better now? > I didn't think so (but it's ten times worse on a laptop, so feel lucky). > > -- Best Regards, > ~DJA. > > > -- [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list Randall Shimizu Cabrillo Computer Solutions http://is-perspectives.blogspot.com/ 619-223-6947 -- ___________________________________________________ Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.mail.com/ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
