On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 17:50, sargon@bigfoot.com wrote: > On Monday 08 December 2003 10:18, Conor Fitzpatrick wrote: > > michael@bubi.dnsalias.net wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am looking for an PCMCIA Wlan Card with 8ß2.11g (54 MBit) > > > > > > I'd like to buy the 3Com 3CRWE154G72, but i can't find, if it is > > > supported (what not necessarily means, it isn't) > > > > I'd be inclined to hold off for the moment: I'm not sure how good > > current linux drivers are for the 802.11g cards, but given the > > non-standardised nature of "g" at the moment, and the flaky > > ndiswrapper style driver porting, I'm sticking with the cheap and > > cheerful, fully compliant and well supported buffalo (orinoco) > > pcmcia 802.11b cards. > > What do you mean by "non-standardised?" The IEEE approved 802.11g as a standard in July. ALL of the big-name vendors have since issued firmware updates to make their equipment compliant with that standard. > > The problem is NOT with the "nature" of 802.11g. The problem IS with the state of Linux drivers. Check http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader for supported devices. That way you can get quite a lot of the 802.11g cards to work. However .. be aware that it's not opensource, they will charge you $19.95 for the driverloader, that allows you to load Windows drivers. Another one is http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ , which works quite alike and is a opensource project to load windows ndis drivers under Linux. Beyond that you will only find some native drivers for the Atheros chipsets (http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi) or PRISM as mentioned on prism54.org The bcm4301 project has not usable code yet, but can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-bcom4301/ So best is not going for the 3com, unless it is based on one of the supported chipsets. Regards, Martin List-Petersen martin at list-petersen dot se -- When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood, like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else. -- Margaret Atwood, "Alias Grace"
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