Re: Wireless PCI Cards - Which Work?
Thomas H. George wrote: Actually I know my Netgear MA311 works but we just moved to a new house and the little antenna for the card was lost. I purchased a Netgear WG31l ($50) and Sarge with a 2.6.11 kernel didn't recognize it. The antenna fit the old MA311 card so I am out $50 but back on line. (I had expected the new card to work and that I would be able to order a new antenna from Netgear and use the old card in a second computer.) Save yourself the $50, return the card and antenna, and just buy an antenna. The connector on the MA311 is a reverse SMA male, and the antenna is a female. Tons of vendors out there with appropriate antennas and connectors for them. http://www.fulton.net.au/qt045.htm http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/HardwareComparison These are just two of numerous Google hits on "Netgear MA311 antenna connector". Nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless PCI Cards - Which Work?
hi ya thomas On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Thomas H. George wrote: > Actually I know my Netgear MA311 works but we just moved to a new house > and the little antenna for the card was lost. I purchased a Netgear > WG31l ($50) and Sarge with a 2.6.11 kernel didn't recognize it. The wg311 works great... if its v1 which uses the atheros chipset vs the common(newer) v2 which uses a different chipset madwifi driver and works with WPA client mode and as WEP ap mode http://Madwifi.net > I did a Google search and found forlorn messages from someone trying to > get a Linksys PCI card to work. I have one of those too and wasted over linksys tends to be broadcom chipset and will work as a wireless client with the ndiswrapper driver http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ http://www.Linux-Wireless.org/Wireless/Drivers/ > Is there somewhere a clear summary of what works and how? no ... best up-2-date summary... - check the device drivers and the supported cards/chipsets http://www.Linux-Wireless.org/Wireless/Drivers/ c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless PCI Cards - Which Work?
Thomas H. George wrote: I did a Google search and found forlorn messages from someone trying to get a Linksys PCI card to work. I have one of those too and wasted over a month two years ago trying to get it to work. Finally gave up and bought the Netgear card which, with a little start up script, worked like a charm. The point of this message? Two years have gone by since my struggles with the Linklsys card and we have progressed from Woody to Sarge and from 2.4 to 2.6 kernels. I thought the problems would all be history but the Google search indicates this is not the case. I bought a LinkSys WRT54GS router and WPC54GS card for my laptop and it works fine. (kernel 2.6.8). It was only back in March but I don't remember many details. I think I already had hotplug/udev/hal etc installed. I even have an icron on the menubar showing the signal strength. I found the following in /etc/network/interfaces just now, but there is probably more to it all. This isn't enough to be helpful but I just wanted to point out the the LinkSys card does work for me. # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface # automatically added when upgrading auto lo iface lo inet loopback mapping hotplug script echo iface wlan0 inet dhcp wireless-essid MySecretEssid wireless-mode Managed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wireless PCI Cards - Which Work?
Actually I know my Netgear MA311 works but we just moved to a new house and the little antenna for the card was lost. I purchased a Netgear WG31l ($50) and Sarge with a 2.6.11 kernel didn't recognize it. The antenna fit the old MA311 card so I am out $50 but back on line. (I had expected the new card to work and that I would be able to order a new antenna from Netgear and use the old card in a second computer.) I did a Google search and found forlorn messages from someone trying to get a Linksys PCI card to work. I have one of those too and wasted over a month two years ago trying to get it to work. Finally gave up and bought the Netgear card which, with a little start up script, worked like a charm. The point of this message? Two years have gone by since my struggles with the Linklsys card and we have progressed from Woody to Sarge and from 2.4 to 2.6 kernels. I thought the problems would all be history but the Google search indicates this is not the case. Is there somewhere a clear summary of what works and how? If I have missed the obvious I apologize but it took hours to clear the 3,000+ messages that accumulated during the move and there is still a hell of a lot of unpacking to do. I thought I'd quickly post this message and go back to work. Tom George -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
