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Re: Wifi & 64 bits, what solutions ?



On 05/30/05 12:32:26PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 10:25:45PM +0200, Emmanuel Doguet wrote:
> > Since I'm under adm64,  I can't use my Dlink PCI with ndiswrapper. So I 
> > have buy a  Pearbird WLG (marked as prism54 in the kernel)... but since 
> > the chipset has changed, it's now a "Marvell  Chipset".
> > ---------------
> > 0000:02:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.: Unknown 
> > device 1faa (rev 03)
> >         Subsystem: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.: Unknown device 1faa
> >         Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
> >         Memory at ea000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
> >         Memory at ea010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
> >         Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
> > ----------------
> > 
> > It's very difficult Wifi & Linux  ... and 64 bits :/
> 
> Check out http://www.ralinktech.com.tw/home.asp
> 
> They have GPL drivers for their wifi chipsets.  Now if I only knew who
> uses their chips I would know what to buy.

I recently bought a Hawking Tech card that uses their chipset, so far no
problems. While looking for a g card for Linux I found this table of ralink
cards: http://ralink.rapla.net/

> 
> Len Sorensen

Jim.



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