Panagiotis Issaris (on Fri, 03 Feb 2006 13:24:31 +0100) wrote: >I'm trying to decide which wireless card to purchase, and I find it >quite difficult to know which cards are support "out-of-the-box" with >recent Linux kernels. I've found various lists of WLAN cards on >websites, on which people report success stories, but I still think >it's rather confusing. > >A year ago I bought a card (WG111), which was supposed to be supported >by an open source driver, but in the end I still had to use ndiswrapper >as there appeared to be two [*] different versions of that same product. >One used the chipset which could be used with an open source driver, the >other -ofcourse the version I bought- is not supported by any open >source driver. Tell me about it. Netgear WG511 v1 is prism54 based. WG511 v2 can be prism54 based, or it can be using a Marvell chipset which needs ndiswrapper. There is no way of telling from the box, you have to plug it in. No more Netgear for me. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
