r0sk wrote:
Hi ppl: I had recently bought an iBook 12" 1.2Ghz, I suposse all of you known that Airport Extreme hasn't got support on Linux, so I was thinking on buy one usb wireless card but dunno which is fully supported to work on Debian. Any tips?. Thanks in advice.
Status for 11b:I have tried belkin 11b (external antenna) with atmel chipset, works on osx and on linux (debian)
Under linux all atmel chipsets work well, under osx only atmel |AT76C503A| with rfmd radio (Belkin F5D6050 , MA101 rev. b)
list of devices: http://at76c503a.berlios.de/devices.html link for osx: http://www.mcquitty.net/Thomas/projects/USBWirelessOSX.html link for linux driver: http://at76c503a.berlios.de/ Status of usb2 11g cards:I have a sityecom wl-113 with zd1211 and driver compiles but freezes kernel (probably due to endian related problems)
Ralink rt2500: USB gpl driver not yet ready, a sourceforge project is developing the driver Zydas zd1211: USB gpl driver for linux is ready, but It doesn't work on powerpc arch: www.sourceforge.net/projects/zd1211 (HELP WANTED)
PrismGT: USB gpl driver not yet ready, they are working on it. Hope it helps -- Guglielmo