Hi Gabor, Ok it's been a while since I've researched all this so I'm going to mention some stuff from memory, I hope it's all accurate :)
Yes, traditionally the Prism chipset enjoyed the best support on Linux because as far as I recall the manufacturers made critical information available to the Linux community. This is the most developed driver out there and should definiately be a top preference. Atheros chipsets are also very popular. IIRC the manufacturers weren't very co-operative but after alot of progress was made on the open source driver began to offer some limited assistance. As far as I know this is probably the 2nd most developed driver out there... http://madwifi.sf.net . I've got an Intel Pro/Wireless 2200 in my Laptop, and there's a driver for it at http://ipw2200.sf.net/ . It works great :) Of course, you you can probably get almost any network or wireless network card to work with the NDIS Wrapper driver - http://ndiswrapper.sf.net/ . MS Windows has a common API for network drivers (called NDIS), and this wrapper let's you use them on Linux. Very cool! HOWEVER -- 1) you'll be supporting manufacturers who refuse to publish their specs (bad!!!), and 2) you'll lose out on any special features not supported by the NDIS API, such as signal strength indicators and turbo mode. (Double check if it supports CardBus cards I'm not 100% sure). There is a driver for Texas Instruments ACX100/ACX111 cards at http://acx100.sf.net/ . Make sure to read the comments for your card on the supported devices list, I didn't heed a warning not to buy my card and ended up using ndiswrapper. Once again, you shouldn't (IMHO) buy cards from manufacturers who refuse to co-operate with the Linux open source community or refuse to offer their own closed source drivers (also a contentious issue for some :)). What chipset was in your Level-One card? And what Laptop do you have just for general interest? (For the unknowing, 'lspci' and 'lsusb' is a good way to help identify your card (I'm not sure about CardBus) -- you can also search for the XXXX:XXXX vendor/product code on google). Good luck. Gadi On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 09:21 +0200, 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]
