Re: WiFi card for Linux Notebook

2005-03-31 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:24:37AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > mac laptops are risc based (g4, g5, imacs ...), of course there are not intel > based, but I only hold it in their favor ;-) Don't forget the G3 laptops. I have a 5 year old pismo (I'm at least the third owner) with a 400 mHz G3 (sti

Re: WiFi card for Linux Notebook

2005-03-31 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 18:53:32 +0200 Oron Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 02 March 2005 12:57, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: > > I think you are mistaken - intel ipw2200, TI acx111 and Prism54 are also > > supported by fully GPL'ed drivers. They all have binary firmware that > > needs to be l

Re: D-Link DWL-G650 (Was: WiFi card for Linux Notebook)

2005-03-14 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
Oded Arbel wrote: Gabor Szabo wrote: As the latest update to my quest to find a WiFi card I was offered a D-Link DWL-G650 card. The reseller (or was this the support of D-Link ?) send me a link to download the driver for this card: http://www.vech-center.com/G650_G520_G630_G510_Linux_041220(01

Re: D-Link DWL-G650 (Was: WiFi card for Linux Notebook)

2005-03-14 Thread Oded Arbel
Gabor Szabo wrote: As the latest update to my quest to find a WiFi card I was offered a D-Link DWL-G650 card. The reseller (or was this the support of D-Link ?) send me a link to download the driver for this card: http://www.vech-center.com/G650_G520_G630_G510_Linux_041220(0103181543).tgz Manual

Re: D-Link DWL-G650 (Was: WiFi card for Linux Notebook)

2005-03-13 Thread Gabor Szabo
As the latest update to my quest to find a WiFi card I was offered a D-Link DWL-G650 card. The reseller (or was this the support of D-Link ?) send me a link to download the driver for this card: http://www.vech-center.com/G650_G520_G630_G510_Linux_041220(0103181543).tgz Manual for Mandrake in

edimax 802.11g usb dongle (Re: WiFi card for Linux Notebook)

2005-03-12 Thread Amit Aronovitch
I just got my new edimax ew-7317ug usb dongle working. (In fact, this post is my first wireless linux email :-) ). It has Zydas zd1211 chipset, which has a GPL'ed linux driver (dual GPL/MPL in fact) - no firmware needed. Reported to work on 2.4.x & 2.6.6/2.6.7 kernels (I'm using 2.6.10 - but t

Warning on ACX111 chipset (Was: WiFi card for Linux Notebook)

2005-03-11 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
Matan Ziv-Av wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Gabor Szabo wrote: As you might guess from a previous message I sent to the list I am now in the "getting 802.11g wireless card into a Linux Notebook" business. Then I did some research and from the various sites I found I understand that basically only car

Re: WiFi card for Linux Notebook

2005-03-02 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 12:57, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: > I think you are mistaken - intel ipw2200, TI acx111 and Prism54 are also > supported by fully GPL'ed drivers. They all have binary firmware that > needs to be loaded to the card, but this is not different from having > the firmware on a ROM

Re: WiFi card for Linux Notebook

2005-03-02 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
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-v

Re: WiFi card for Linux Notebook

2005-03-02 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Oron Peled wrote: About a month ago I discovered (announced Dec-2004): http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page 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

Re: WiFi card for Linux Notebook

2005-03-02 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 10:29, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: > Edimax 7108 - uses ralink rt2500, has free driver (but it's not part of > the distributions yet). About a month ago I discovered (announced Dec-2004): http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page AFAIK this is the only 11g chi

Re: WiFi card for Linux Notebook

2005-03-02 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:21:03 +0200, Aviram Jenik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In that case, here is my little contribution to the list of success stories: > I did a quick check, and my PCMCIA 802.11g cards are prism chipset based (the > installation was indeed 'plug-n-play') while the USB wifi cards

Re: WiFi card for Linux Notebook

2005-03-02 Thread Aviram Jenik
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 10:33, Gabor Szabo wrote: > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 10:18:19 +0200, Aviram Jenik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I don't understand is what do you mean by "it is hard to get a > > stable driver"?! AFAIK getting a driver is an action with a binary result > > - you either ge

Re: WiFi card for Linux Notebook

2005-03-02 Thread Gadi Cohen
Hi Gabor, Ok it's been a while since I've researched all this so I'm going to mention some stuff from memory, I hope it's all accurate :) Yes, traditionally the Prism chipset enjoyed the best support on Linux because as far as I recall the manufacturers made critical information available to the

Re: WiFi card for Linux Notebook

2005-03-02 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 10:18:19 +0200, Aviram Jenik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I don't understand is what do you mean by "it is hard to get a stable > driver"?! AFAIK getting a driver is an action with a binary result - you > either get one or you don't... After reading several posts on variou

Re: WiFi card for Linux Notebook

2005-03-02 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Gabor Szabo wrote: As you might guess from a previous message I sent to the list I am now in the "getting 802.11g wireless card into a Linux Notebook" business. Then I did some research and from the various sites I found I understand that basically only cards with Prism54 chip s

Re: WiFi card for Linux Notebook

2005-03-02 Thread Aviram Jenik
I've used several 802.11g cards under Linux and never had any problems. The worse-case scenario is using ndiswrapper (which some people may object using for ideological reasons, but it works fine for me and I didn't see lightbolts sent from the sky to fry me). What I don't understand is what d

Re: WiFi card for Linux Notebook

2005-03-02 Thread Kfir Lavi
Gabor, please look at this link. Its a page on wireless drivers. http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ kfir pgp6GibWrKr5b.pgp Description: PGP signature

WiFi card for Linux Notebook

2005-03-01 Thread Gabor Szabo
As you might guess from a previous message I sent to the list I am now in the "getting 802.11g wireless card into a Linux Notebook" business. I bought a Level One WPC-0301 card for 205 NIS but it was not recognized by Fedora3 and from the help I got here and from the searches II made it seems it