Re: Recommendations for Linux compatible wireless LAN PCMCIA card

[Damon <damon@damtek.com>]

Alex Polite wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 02:29:00PM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote:
>  
>
> > I have a Dell Latitude C640 laptop [1] that I would like to get hooked
> > to the network via wireless. Any recommendations for good  PCMCIA WLAN
> > cards (802.11b/g/a)that are Linux-compatible as well (native drivers
> > that is)? How would I configure the wireless interface in
> > /etc/network/interfaces?
> >
> >    
>
> I'm very happy with my D-link AirXpert DWL-AG650. It supports a,b and
> g and there are native open source linux drivers from the Madwifi
> project. Anything with the Atheros chipset is supported.
>
> You have to compile the drivers yourself and you should be comfortable
> with compiling your own kernel.
>
> Some nice danish guy put up a page and some packages for building the
> drivers as debian packages.
>
> http://www.marlow.dk/site.php/tech/madwifi
>
> alex
>
>  
Were you able to compile the .debs?  I could not.  It just ran and ran
untill it caused my box to run out of memory.  Using Sid here.  I did
get it to work buy getting the cvs and make, make install.

P. S.  Sorry Alex for sending this first to you directly, my mistake.
--
Damon L. Chesser
damon@damtek.com