Re: 802.11g PCI wireless adaptor
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Guang Zhu wrote:
> I'm using a Belkin 802.11g PCI card driven by ndiswrapper (which actually
> uses the Windows driver).
ndiswrapper will definitely not support master mode and might not support
wpa ?
> From: Jason Rennie <jrennie@csail.mit.edu>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: 802.11g PCI wireless adaptor
> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:29:17 -0500
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 07:57:30PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> > I have an SMC 2802W which is handled by prism54. But I don't use it very
> > often and cannot give much information about reliability. prism54 is
> > generally quite good. This card may be hard to get today. Maybe you
> > should search on ebay or get it 2nd hand from somewhere else.
>
> Great. Good to know that some g-class cards work in linux. I'll make
> the educated guess that any card listed as "Prism GT" at
> www.linux-wlan.org will have a good chance of working. EBay was
no no ... you have to know what version of the chipset
-- all manufacturers make the same model xxx but they use
different chipset on the pci card depending on their whim
at the time of the manufacturing
- just because it worked for joe, does not imply the
identical model number will work for tom, dick and harry
- if the chipset on the boards are the same, that it will work
c ya
alvin
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