Quoting Justin Graham on Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 02:46:27PM -0600: > I have both a D-Link DWL-650 and a Cisco Aironet 350. The linux support > is great for both of them, the GPLed driver for the Aironet even > supports Cisco's API so the Cisco configuration tools will work with it. > As far as signal quality goes, the difference is night and day. While > using the Cisco card with the same transmit settings it was able to > establish an 11 MBit link when the D-Link couldn't find the AP at any > speed. There is a nice hardware comparison at > > http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/HardwareComparison > > - Justin Graham > > On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 04:58, Michael Zimmerman wrote: > > Hello, All. I recently puchased a used IBM 560X lapop and I successfully > > installed potato. I was wondering what kind of wireless card I could buy > > for my laptop? I had searched the net for some additional info on linux > > compatable wireless products, but I did not find the info that I was > > looking for. So now I turn to you guys. Is there any one out there who is > > successfully running linux wireless cards on there systems? I need a linux > > compatable wireless network card, both pcmcia(for my laptop) and pci (for > > my desktop). > > > > Could any one give me sugestions, success stories, etc?. > > > > -- Mike Z. > > Others have suggested the orinoco/agere cards and I would have to go along with that suggestion. I use both gold and silver cards with a Orinoco RG 1000 here at home (using one right now with a IBM ThinkPad T21) with a 2.4.17 kernel and the orinoco_cs hermes drives with great results. I have been quite happy with the hermes orinoco_cs drivers since I made the switch back at 2.4.5 or somewhere.
I did have an issue which Jean Tourhilles helped with as well as David Gibson. INitially, I had used the orinoco wavelan drivers which required patching the pcmcia-cs sources. When I decided to switch over, I still had renegade wavelan_cs drivers in my /etc/pcmcia/config file. I went through that file carefully and commented those entries and the card was picked right up! It also works quite well across suspend/resume events on this T21 laptop. -- Michael Perry | "Do or do not; there is no try" Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
