I've used several 802.11g cards under Linux and never had any problems. The worse-case scenario is using ndiswrapper (which some people may object using for ideological reasons, but it works fine for me and I didn't see lightbolts sent from the sky to fry me).
What I don't understand is what do you mean by "it is hard to get a stable driver"?! AFAIK getting a driver is an action with a binary result - you either get one or you don't... - Aviram On Wednesday 02 March 2005 09:21, Gabor Szabo wrote: > As you might guess from a previous message I sent to the list I am now in > the "getting 802.11g wireless card into a Linux Notebook" business. > > I bought a Level One WPC-0301 card for 205 NIS but it was not > recognized by Fedora3 > and from the help I got here and from the searches II made it seems it > will be hard to get a stable driver for it. > > Then I did some research and from the various sites I found I > understand that basically only cards with Prism54 chip set are well > supported. (Am I correct here ?) > > See this link > http://prism54.org/supported_cards.php > > In this shop there are a few others listed that should work as well: > http://www.linuxvoodoo.com/store/index.php/cPath/45_66 > > Now the supplier offered me a replacement card called > 3CRWE154G72 (A 3Com card) for 368 NIS. (one of the cards listed on > the Prism site). > > I am not sure I want to pay an extra 163 NIS for this card if there is > a cheaper but working solution. > > So I would like to ask you ppl. do you have experience with any PCMCIA > WiFi card (11g) that works well under Linux ? Where did you buy it ? > How much did it cost ? > > > Thanks > Gabor > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
