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From: Lubos Vrbka on 23 Feb 2006 04:10
>>>If I was to buy a new wireless pccard, it'll definitely get one with
>>>support under the vanilla kernel...cause I'm lazy :). It's very easy to
>>>install ndiswrapper module by following its wiki but is *super* easy via
>>>module-assistant.
>>
>>for such cards, ndiswrapper is not needed, i guess... or am i wrong?
>>
>>regards,
>>
>
> You're correct, ndiswrapper isn't needed by cards with native support
> under the vanilla kernel.
>
obviously, there aren't too many possibilities (2.6.15 kernel):
Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 PCMCIA cards (AIRO_CS)
they seems to support only b/
Planet WL3501 PCMCIA cards (PCMCIA_WL3501)
Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo PCI/Cardbus (PRISM54)
several cards have this chip inside

which one of these three would you recommend? or maybe going with
ndiswrapper would be an easier way...

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From: jlmb on 23 Feb 2006 04:10
Lubos Vrbka wrote:
>> I use ndiswrapper too, what can I say...it gets the job done. I even
>> have WPA support.
>>
>> If I was to buy a new wireless pccard, it'll definitely get one with
>> support under the vanilla kernel...cause I'm lazy :). It's very easy to
>> install ndiswrapper module by following its wiki but is *super* easy via
>> module-assistant.
>
> for such cards, ndiswrapper is not needed, i guess... or am i wrong?
>
> regards,
>
You're correct, ndiswrapper isn't needed by cards with native support
under the vanilla kernel.


I should had written it like this:
>> I use ndiswrapper too, what can I say...it gets the job done. I even
>> have WPA support. It's very easy to install ndiswrapper module by
>>following its wiki but is *super* easy via module-assistant.

>> If I was to buy a new wireless pccard, it'll definitely get one with
>> support under the vanilla kernel...cause I'm lazy :)


hope it helps.
jorge


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From: Lubos Vrbka on 23 Feb 2006 04:50
> The Intel wireless cards (which are already in the kernel) do support 802.11g.
> For the other cards, you'd have to look for their open source projects
> (for atheros chipsets use the madwifi drivers + their binary HAL; then
> the rt2x00 drivers for the ralink rt2500 chipset). We're still waiting
> for the maturity and inclusion of the libieee80211 stack (used by the
> Intel cards) so that every wifi card would have a standard library of
> functions.
i couldn't find any intel pcmcia wifi cards in the kernel config... or
does this relate to PCI card? what have i overlooked?

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From: Lubos Vrbka on 23 Feb 2006 04:50
> I suggest you forget about the bcm4306. Broadcom clearly doesn't want
> to cooperate in making native drivers for operating systems other than
> MS Windows.
ok. the card we have here (it's asus wl-100g deluxe) seems to work nice
in windoze, but since it has bcm4306...

> I'm assuming that you're using a mini-PCI wifi card, so I'd suggest
> you get one of these, if your budget allows. These are long-range,
> high-power cards that have good receive sensitivity, which is good for
> wifi, and are Linux-compatible (using the Madwifi drivers):
no, it's not mini-PCI, it's PCMCIA (i need wifi card for 'old' notebook)

> PCMCIA
> * Engenius NL-5354CB
> * Engenius NL-3054CB
> * Netgear WG511T
>
> Other than that, you could use cards that use the Ralink RT2500
> chipset (e.g. MSI CB54G2, ASUS wifi cards, etc). The good thing about
> these is that these don't require any firmware. You just download the
> GPL'd rt2500 drivers.
it's not clear whether the engenius and netgear require the firmware or
not... they work with madwifi, right?

and not all ASUS wifi cards have ralink rt2500 inside, apparently (see
the top of this post)...

> You'd have a tougher time looking for others, such as cards using
> Prism54, as they aren't really commercially available. eBay would help
> a lot on these though.

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From: Lubos Vrbka on 23 Feb 2006 07:30
>>>Other than that, you could use cards that use the Ralink RT2500
>>>chipset (e.g. MSI CB54G2, ASUS wifi cards, etc). The good thing about
>>>these is that these don't require any firmware. You just download the
>>>GPL'd rt2500 drivers.
well, i found all cards that should have rt2500 'onboard' - it might be
of some use for others - go to the following link...
http://ralink.rapla.net/

i'll probably gor for asus wl107g...

also the following intel cards seem to be promising (if they're
available as PCMCIA)...
Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2200BG Mini-PCI/PC-CARD
Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2915ABG Mini-PCI/PC-CARD

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