The PCI cards only work with the linux-wlan drivers I believe. * Peter Hicks (peter@libation.com) wrote: > On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 07:31:50PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > >Peter Hicks wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 03:33:34PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > >> >I'm about to buy one of those cards as well, so any work you do would > >> >be great :) Even if you can't get it to play 100% nice it would still > >> >be nice to have it in Debian. > >> > > >> > >> The linux-wlan drivers work so much better than the kernel drivers. It > >> would be great if they were debianized! > > > >Which kernel drivers are these that I could use instead of doing all > >this work? Please do tell. :-) > > > > well, I would hate to dissuade you from packaging the linux-wlan > drivers, but I have no trouble using prism2, orinoco, or cisco aironet > cards with the stock debian 2.4.18 kernel. Both my lucent card and my > smc 2632 use the hermes/orinoco_cs drivers. I tested a cisco card last > monday and it worked fine, but I don't have it around to check which > drivers it used. > > But, like I said, I have much better performance from the linux-wlan > drivers, and the promiscious mode let's you monitor the 802.11b > frames, which you can't do with the hermes drivers. > -- Eric Dorland <dorland@lords.com> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: hooty@jabber.com 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w+ O? M++ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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