I am running my RH 8 with a V2.4.20 (custom) kernel using a Netgear MA311 PCI (802.11b) wireless card and a MR814 wireless router. It was relatively easy to setup once I understood what to do. It works great. I am very happy with the setup - I got started reading the information posted on www.stevewatts.com/computers/pc4/#hostap. This will get you started.
I did not use the wlan-ng driver. I configured the kernel to support PrismII based wireless cards instead. If you want to go this path with a Netgear MA311 card, when you configure your kernel you want to be sure to include Prism2 chipset support, inside the Wireless LAN (non Ham radio) section.
If you are interested in more details, let me know and I can write and post a detailed description, including how to set up WEP security and such -
Carlos
James Manning wrote:
[Roy Vestal] I am wanting to add a desktop to my network. I have wireless and I don't want to run a wire. Has anyone had experience with Wireless PCI cards under linux? Any recommendations?i used a pcmcia-pci bridge and an orinoco card a couple years back - worked fine except pcmcia wasn't SMP-happy so I had to run my BP6 dual celery with a UP kernel, but otherwise worked like a champ. I've heard things are much better for SMP pcmcia these days, but I haven't had a need to try it out lately.I like pcmcia wireless cards and bridges mainly because I can take the card to a laptop if I choose to, whereas dedicated cards don't give that flexibility. Not sure what the price comparisons are like these days, though :)
