Can anybody recommend a good all rounder 54Mbs PCMCIA and/or PCI desktop card that works with Linux like a comfortable slipper and supports a good range on it? I've had enough of Netgear cr*p to last me a lifetime.
M.
On Wed, 25 May 2005, Martyn Drake wrote:
Can anybody recommend a good all rounder 54Mbs PCMCIA and/or PCI desktop card that works with Linux like a comfortable slipper and supports a good range on it? I've had enough of Netgear cr*p to last me a lifetime.
M.
What's wrong with the Netgear stuff? I've used a WG511T 108Mb for a couple of years with Linux with no problems at all.
The Intel Centrino chipsets work well, and the latest driver from Sourceforge for the 2200 series now support monityor mode, so Kismet works with them.
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Martyn Drake martyn@drake.org.uk wrote:
Can anybody recommend a good all rounder 54Mbs PCMCIA and/or PCI desktop card that works with Linux like a comfortable slipper and supports a good range on it? I've had enough of Netgear cr*p to last me a lifetime.
Hmm... Interesting, I have 2 Netgear cards... both work beautifully... one's prism54 base (a WG511 v2 Made in Taiwan, and what's currently plugged in), and a WG511T which is atheros based. (Actually, I lied, I've got 3 Netgear cards... the third, however, is a broken Made in China v3 WG511, so not worth mentioning ;)
For quick and easy I'd say the WG511T is not bad, even Jenny got one of those to work. The madwifi driver "just works" (tm), once you've got it compiled up :)
Most of the other crap on the market is broadcom based, at least in my experience.
IIRC there's a few 3Com cards that are prism54 based, and just work, but I can't remember which, and I've a feeling that the modern ones also use a broadcom chipset (run away run away ;)
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Brett Parker wrote:
Hmm... Interesting, I have 2 Netgear cards... both work beautifully... one's prism54 base (a WG511 v2 Made in Taiwan, and what's currently plugged in), and a WG511T which is atheros based. (Actually, I lied, I've got 3 Netgear cards... the third, however, is a broken Made in China v3 WG511, so not worth mentioning ;)
The WPN311 that I have is about as reliable as Rick Waller tap dancing on a wobbly tray in the land of Chocolate. And that's saying something.
For quick and easy I'd say the WG511T is not bad, even Jenny got one of those to work. The madwifi driver "just works" (tm), once you've got it compiled up :)
Most of the other crap on the market is broadcom based, at least in my experience.
Yes, I'd like to avoid Broadcom at all costs.
M.
On Wednesday 25 May 2005 13:11, Brett Parker wrote:
Martyn Drake martyn@drake.org.uk wrote:
Can anybody recommend a good all rounder 54Mbs PCMCIA and/or PCI desktop card that works with Linux like a comfortable slipper and supports a good range on it? I've had enough of Netgear cr*p to last me a lifetime.
Hmm... Interesting, I have 2 Netgear cards... both work beautifully...
My girlfriend and I both have Netgear MA521 cards which seem to work fine in Mandrake and Gentoo respectively (using ndiswrapper). Small amount of fiddling required to set them up, afterwards no hassles at all.
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