Noong Huw, Dis 21, 2006 ng 11:27:40AM +0800, sinabi ni Tiger Quimpo: > > the Edimax EW-7108PCg cardbus is good enough but unfortunately it is > > not equipped with an Atheros chipset which is not much of an issue > > unless you're interested on a WPA-specific auditing feature. > > It looks like I'll go with the Edimax. After some research, it > looks like the wifi device I've got is some sort of softmac > Prism54. That's something like a winmodem but for wifi devices. > There's firmware that needs to be loaded, etc, etc. I could spend > a lot of time figuring out how to make it work, and at some point > it would eventually work. I think I'll give up on that though > (the same way I give up on winmodems, even though others get them > working :-) and just get the Edimax :-). My time is more valuable > than money right now, and we just got our bonus (14th month) at > work, so I'll just splurge :-).
Hi Tiger, Sorry to chime in late, but if you do get the Edimax, check the model number -first-. I purchased an Edimax 7318UG thinking that I would be able to use it under Linux on an iBook. The Edimax USB Wifi comes with a Driver/Utilities Disk (CD-ROM) which includes drivers for Debian, Fedora, Mandrake, SuSE, Mac OS X (10.3.x, 10.4.x) and Windows x64. These are binary only drivers... I was unable to use it on my uncommon setup (Linux PPC), but it worked fine under Mac OS X. You will probably not run into problems getting it to work under more mainstream Linux distributions since the binaries are built for x86 anyway. The older models have open source drivers around (http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com and http://rt2400.sf.net), but I would test the thing before making an outright purchase. -- ___ Eric Pareja (xenos AT upm.edu.ph) | Information Management Service [IMS] \e/ Network and Systems Administrator | University of the Philippines Manila _v_ [ http://www.upm.edu.ph/~xenos ][GPG: 0xB82E42D9][Reg. Linux User #8159] "Ang hindi marunong magmahal ng sariling wika ay higit pa sa malansang isda."
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