Hello *,
last week I experimented with WLAN PCMCIA cards on my Dell Latitude CS400XT running 2.6.10.
First I bought a Netgear WG 511 (54Mbit/s) which is reported to work properly using the native Linux driver for Prism chipsets. As it did not work at all, I did some research on the web and found out that new cards use a reduced chipset - the driver developers refer to it as SoftMAC as opposed to HardMAC - which is more like a Winmodem in that it requires heavy support by the CPU. Despite the severe change in implementation, Netgear did not change the card's identifier s.t. hotplug identifies it a as prism card and tries to load the prism driver. It seems that all Netgear cards "Made in China" have this problem and that in Germany only those cards are being sold at the moment. So hands off - also if you plan to use it with an older Windows machine because of the heavy CPU load the driver causes. I returned this card.
Use a WG 511T works perfect with mad-wifi
just install the hkernel-headers package for your kernel and get mad-wifi from CVS
follow the documentation on the mad-wifi site and enjoy
greets Uwe
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