Re: Acer 5024WLMI and wireless
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 12:20 pm, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 09:17:34PM +0200, Tim T. wrote:
> > Following up on my own post:
> > I found this: acerhk (http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~tauber/acerhk/)
> > Unfortunately, development has stopped. I'd be willing to take a shot at
> > it, but there's some assembler in there,
> > for a 32 bit processor that I'm not familiar with... Anybody here fluent
> > in this ?
> >
> > Failing that,I stumbled across a good price on a prism54 based card, the
> > smc2835w. Anybody got any experience with this ?
>
> I have seen people say they had good luck with ralink 2500 based
> wireless since it has GPL'd drivers with complete sources. A list of
> cards using those chips can be found here (pay careful attension to
> revisions since some stupid companies change chipsets with just a
> revision change, and a model that you thought was one thing is now
> another):
> http://ralink.rapla.net/
>
> Even prism based cards are often softmac now and hence not supported by
> the prism driver that works with hardmac chips.
>
> Len Sorensen
I will add a first-person good experience with RALink chipsets. I personally
have a rt2570 (USB version) and am quite pleased with it. At the much more
active development site http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com they have updated
drivers from the RALink release.
One caveat however, is that there have been reports in the forums about PPC64
support. I gleaned the impression that most of the issues were endianness
based, but I have only used the driver on x86.
Joel Johnson
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