Broadcom chipsets seem to be borgizing the planet. The big problem is that card makers have changed the chipsets without changing the card model numbers and broadcom is reluctant to release specs for driver writers nor Linux drivers.
My laptop has a built in broadcom chipset wlan adapter. I've gotten it to work with NDIS wrapper kinda, but ended up having to spend $20 with linuxant for their driver loader as the most reliable solution. I'm still trying to get several networks pre-configured so I can activate the connection based on if I'm @work, or @home, or nomadic. Does anyone know of issues with profiles when using a wrapper? Dave S. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeremy Portzer > Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 4:49 PM > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Cheap supported Wireless PCMCIA card > > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 14:57, Jeremy Clark wrote: > > Does anyone have a suggestion for a wireless pcmcia interface that > > isn't expensive? This is just for personal use. I DAFS but wanted a > > second opinion. > > There has been much speculation in the IRC channel over the > meaning of "DAFS" -- "Direct Access File System" didn't seem > to make sense. Can you explain? > > What kind of interface are you looking for? 802.11b or g, or > something else like Bluetooth? For 802.11b, anything based > on the PrismII chipset will work nicely in Linux, but I don't > know how hard they are to find now. (Many of the cards that > formerly used PrismII now use a Broadcom shipset that isn't > supported as well.) > > --Jeremy > > -- > /------------------------------------------------------------- > --------\ > | Jeremy Portzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] > trilug.org/~jeremy | > | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC > CC1A 7B92 | > \------------------------------------------------------------- > --------/ > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
