Re: Debian and wireless network cards
On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 09:07:50AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 08:06:17PM -0400, Leonid Grinberg wrote: Hello, I was asked by a friend to install Debian on his system. He asked me about which wireless network cards Debian supports. Can anybody tell me which ones (I personally don't use a wireless network so I wouldn't know). I posted this question last week when I lost the antenna to my Netgear MA211 wireless lan card and was advised the best uptodate info was at http://Linux-Wireless.org That didn't help much. I then went to www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan-adapters.html.gz because I use the linux-wlan-ng=0.2.1-pre26 driver with my Netgear MA311 card. From the table I ordered a 3com 3crdw696 PCI wireless lan card for my second computer. I have not yet received the card and will confirm that it works with the linux-wlan-ng driver when it comes. This is old technology - 802.11b - but with a DSL connection downloads run at 70 to 90 kBps. New 3com cards were being sold at $ 29. The 3com card does work with the linux-wlan-ng driver but the range is terrible. In the same location where the Netgear MA311 card is connecting with a weak but acceptable signal the 3com card drops 25% of the packets when pinging the base station. Others may have better advice - it was frustrating trying to find the latest and best information. Tom George Thanks, Leonid Grinberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian and wireless network cards
Thomas H. George wrote: Others may have better advice - it was frustrating trying to find the latest and best information. Mostly the manufacturer's fault. When there's four devices called [model number] and no version numbers, who's to blame for all the confusion? Or perhaps they enjoy confusing customers who buy their products based on the product name. Still looking for a hardware vendor to support that is actively avoiding this silliness who also provides ample support to the Linux driver writers for their cards. Nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian and wireless network cards
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 08:06:17PM -0400, Leonid Grinberg wrote: Hello, I was asked by a friend to install Debian on his system. He asked me about which wireless network cards Debian supports. Can anybody tell me which ones (I personally don't use a wireless network so I wouldn't know). I posted this question last week when I lost the antenna to my Netgear MA211 wireless lan card and was advised the best uptodate info was at http://Linux-Wireless.org That didn't help much. I then went to www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan-adapters.html.gz because I use the linux-wlan-ng=0.2.1-pre26 driver with my Netgear MA311 card. From the table I ordered a 3com 3crdw696 PCI wireless lan card for my second computer. I have not yet received the card and will confirm that it works with the linux-wlan-ng driver when it comes. This is old technology - 802.11b - but with a DSL connection downloads run at 70 to 90 kBps. New 3com cards were being sold at $ 29. Others may have better advice - it was frustrating trying to find the latest and best information. Tom George Thanks, Leonid Grinberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian and wireless network cards
On Thursday 21 July 2005 19:06, Leonid Grinberg wrote: Hello, I was asked by a friend to install Debian on his system. He asked me about which wireless network cards Debian supports. Can anybody tell me which ones (I personally don't use a wireless network so I wouldn't know). Thanks, Leonid Grinberg Leonid, Two cards have worked for me: 1. SMC EX Connect G Mod# SMC2835W it uses the Prism54 driver which is in 2.6 series kernel, you need to download the Firmware (a file the tells the card how to work) and put it in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware ( see http://prism54.org/~mcgrof/firmware/ and www.prism54.org ) 2. Orinoco gold 11b/g PC card Mod# 8470-FC . This card is by far the better of the two in that it allows you to use WPA if you need it. Both use WEP. The Orinoco uses Atheros drivers and is slightly harder to install. see http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/, http://madwifi.sourceforge.net/, the best up and running instructions are http://www.madwifi.net/. You will need to have a dev. environment set up (gcc, debhelper, sysutils, and a few more I don't remember) But don't dispare! on irc Freenode server #madwifi channel you can get friendly help. It all is realy easy, but time consuming the first time and requires a kernel compile or kernel headers installed. I hope that helps. Yes it all is very hard to get info on wireless. But that is becuse of the MFG all just change the chipset on the fly and don't bother to change the model numbers. That and the drivers are protected IP (such as the Prism54 family) and have to be backwards engineered. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian and wireless network cards
On Thursday 21 July 2005 19:06, Leonid Grinberg wrote: Hello, I was asked by a friend to install Debian on his system. He asked me about which wireless network cards Debian supports. Can anybody tell me which ones (I personally don't use a wireless network so I wouldn't know). Thanks, Leonid Grinberg Leonid, Two cards have worked for me: 1. SMC EX Connect G Mod# SMC2835W it uses the Prism54 driver which is in 2.6 series kernel, you need to download the Firmware (a file the tells the card how to work) and put it in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware ( see http://prism54.org/~mcgrof/firmware/ and www.prism54.org ) 2. Orinoco gold 11b/g PC card Mod# 8470-FC . This card is by far the better of the two in that it allows you to use WPA if you need it. Both use WEP. The Orinoco uses Atheros drivers and is slightly harder to install. see http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/, http://madwifi.sourceforge.net/, the best up and running instructions are http://www.madwifi.net/. You will need to have a dev. environment set up (gcc, debhelper, sysutils, and a few more I don't remember) But don't dispare! on irc Freenode server #madwifi channel you can get friendly help. It all is realy easy, but time consuming the first time and requires a kernel compile or kernel headers installed. I hope that helps. Yes it all is very hard to get info on wireless. But that is becuse of the MFG all just change the chipset on the fly and don't bother to change the model numbers. That and the drivers are protected IP (such as the Prism54 family) and have to be backwards engineered. Addendium: Omitted the first time: The Orinoco goes by the name of Proxim and can be purchased online. To use WPA I advise you apt-getting wpasupplicant. Read /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant to set it up. Once again, it is easy, but you have to read. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian and wireless network cards
I just solved this dilemma two days ago. I found the hawking hwp54g works well and is pretty inexpensive. Hawking has used a few different chipsets but IIRC they all have linux drivers in varying degrees of development. The one that I bought has a Ralink rt2500 chipset, and the driver for it is actually based on code donated to the community from Ralink, which is always a good sign. http://www.hawkingtech.com/prodSpec.php?ProdID=180 http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Leonid Grinberg wrote: Hello, I was asked by a friend to install Debian on his system. He asked me about which wireless network cards Debian supports. Can anybody tell me which ones (I personally don't use a wireless network so I wouldn't know). Thanks, Leonid Grinberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian and wireless network cards
I have an D-link DWL-650 working with Debian Sarge kernel 2.6. 2005/7/21, Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I was asked by a friend to install Debian on his system. He asked me about which wireless network cards Debian supports. Can anybody tell me which ones (I personally don't use a wireless network so I wouldn't know). Thanks, Leonid Grinberg -- Maykon Silveira
Debian and wireless network cards
Hello, I was asked by a friend to install Debian on his system. He asked me about which wireless network cards Debian supports. Can anybody tell me which ones (I personally don't use a wireless network so I wouldn't know). Thanks, Leonid Grinberg
Re: Debian and wireless network cards
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Leonid Grinberg wrote: Hello, I was asked by a friend to install Debian on his system. He asked me about which wireless network cards Debian supports. Can anybody tell me which ones (I personally don't use a wireless network so I wouldn't know). all wireless cards will work if you're willing to sacrifice features - linux can use the ndiswrapper and use the windoze driver from the cdrom that came with the nic if you want to build a wireless AP or wpa .. - you will need either the hostap driver or madwifi driver and see which cards it supports - be careful of old models and new models with the same part number but differs in which wifi chip is used on the pci/pcmcia cards --- if you want wep, you can use most any other linux supported wifi cards - if you're using wep as your security mechanism, than consider your machine pre-hacked and keep all your bank info elsewhere - run everything with ssh/ssl if you're paranoid ssh, pop3s, imaps, https, .. --- easier way: a. see what is on sale and search for the linux drivers b. see what your buddy is using and use that wifi card more wifi fun Linux-Wireless.org c ya alvin -- for those that are looking to do a mediaum range 5-10 miles wifi, i've got two 24db wifi antenna that we'll be testing -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
