Re: Experience with recent WLAN hardware (Netgear WG 511, TRENDnet TEW-421PC)

2005-03-21 Thread Michael Marte
Hello James (and *), some remarks and some more experience: * Netgear seems to sell cards based on the Texas Instruments chipset as well, e.g. the WG 311. * I tried the native Linux driver (latest version) and found that it works quite reliably for me WHEN someone else is using the access po

Re: Experience with recent WLAN hardware (Netgear WG 511, TRENDnet TEW-421PC)

2005-03-16 Thread debianlaptop
Hi Michael, thanks for sharing this information, I am currently thinking of buying a new wireless card here in Germany for my wife's laptop, and the warning aboutthe netgear cards is very valuable. Just for your info, I am actually currently using an acx111 chipset card (from siteco

Re: Experience with recent WLAN hardware (Netgear WG 511, TRENDnet TEW-421PC)

2005-03-14 Thread Michael Perry
On 03/14/2005 03:12 PM, Uwe A. P. Wuerdinger wrote: Michael Marte schrieb: 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 chips

Re: Experience with recent WLAN hardware (Netgear WG 511, TRENDnet TEW-421PC)

2005-03-14 Thread Uwe A. P. Wuerdinger
Michael Marte schrieb: 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