On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:38:52PM +0200, Oron Peled wrote: > AFAIK this is the only 11g chipset with full spec and fully > GPL'ed driver. This is important as binary only drivers > (e.g: nVidia) create tough dilemmas (e.g: apply a kernel > security patch and stay with non-working driver or vice-versa?)
The new (11g) cards are common here but not the older ones. This is because Wifi only became legal in the fall of 2003 and is very limited in it's use. You can only use channels 4-8 (instead of 1-14) and cannot use high power cards or gain antennas (without reducing transmitter power). There are zillions of the older 11mbps cards around in the rest of the world and many of them are supported by Linux. They can be bought easily off of Ebay, but the problem being that the same names were reused for different chipsets and some will work some wont. So far the best luck I have had in getting a card that would work at all was to rape the Wavelan card out of an old Apple Airport base station. I have not used it on linux (it resides nicely in a Mac Laptop), but every one says it will work. I've had good luck on a desktop with an EDIMAX USB dongle (eu-7177u) with the Zyxel chipset, but my linux laptop does not have USB, so I never tried it there. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: 972-2-679-6896 IL Fax: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 VoIP (Email to schedule) Free World Dialup: 523178 Skype: gsmendelson ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
