11g PCI Wireless recommendations
I'm seeking recommendations for currently-available 802.11g-compliant
Wireless PCI cards for Linux.
Please post replies to the list so others can critique them and benefit
from them.
I wish native drivers, not Windows wrapped in something such as ndiswrapper.
If you have a PCI card that works with Linux drivers, then please do this:
Frogmouth:~# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone]
(rev 24)
00:0b.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor: Unknown device 3890
(rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G100
[Productiva] AGP (rev 02)
Frogmouth:~#
This lists your PCI devices. Having identified your wireless card, then
this:
Frogmouth:~# lspci -s 00:0b.0 -v -v
00:0b.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor: Unknown device 3890
(rev 01)
Subsystem: Accton Technology Corporation: Unknown device ee03
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 64 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), cache line size 08
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
Region 0: Memory at efffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Frogmouth:~#
"-s" identifies your card from the first column.
This card is an SMC2802W version two. It does not work with the native
driver (prism54), but version one does. A few people, myself included,
have been caught with this card.
I personally don't mind too much if the driver's not included in Debian,
I can patch and kernels.
Oh, if you can point to a photo of your card, that would be helpful too.
Here are some pics for examples:
This one does not work:
http://www.smc-asia.com/index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=183&op=page&SubMenu=
This two-page brochure contains a pic of the one that works:
http://www.smc-asia.com/index.php?option=com_downloads&Itemid=50&func=download&filecatid=312
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