On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 05:36:17AM +1000, Brad Hards wrote:
> Tom Rini wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 07:37:45PM +1000, Brad Hards wrote:
> > > Nate Carlson wrote:
> > >
> > > > Does Linux have support for any 802.11b USB NIC's yet? I can't find any
> > > > mention whatsoever on the working devices page. Thanks!
> > > Not that I know of. I have a DWL-120 on order (for the last two months :(
> > > and intend to look at this after the CATC driver is done.
> > >
> > > If anyone wants to cooperate on this, let me know.
> > >
> >
> > Well, this _probably_ uses the samechipset the DWL-650, which is supported,
> > but if you don't have pcmcia stuff on your machine, you can't use the driver.
> > Yet, that is.
> I have the DWL-650 (and use it with wvlan_cs from pcmcia_cs), and an airport, and am
> sending this email over the link :)
> The wvlan_cs driver doesn't support the Prism II chipset very well (eg, no WEP), but
>the
> new orinoco driver that Dave Gibson (ex-Linuxcare ozlabs, local to Canberra:-) just
>got
> into the AC patchset apparently does much better. I just can't make kernel pcmcia
>work on
> my laptop yet :(
That driver has also been hacked on a bit to do airport as well :) Ben H and
Dave Gibson both want to put in some stubs so that it can work on PCI cards
w/ that chipset (or in the case of airport, the towers/iMacs w/o a true
pcmcia setup in 'em).
> The Prism II chipset does have USB as well as Cardbus interfaces, so I am
> assuming that that could be the right device.
Quite probably.
--
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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