Thanks for the info. I might just stick with the wired card for now just based on the cost of the cards in general and the router I chose will do fine less the cost of teh card. Scott On Feb 23, 2006, at 9:44 PM, Garrett Klein wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > There is a driver for the Atheros "multiband" chips, http:// > madwifi.sourceforge.net. The Proxim Orinoco A/B/G PCI Combo Card > (8482 comes to mind for the model number) uses this chipset. HTH. > > Garrett > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 09:33:13PM -0500, Terry D. Cudney wrote: >> Hi Scott, >> >> There are a number of wireless cards that work under Linux... >> more B than G cards it seems. >> >> I have been using a Prism 2.5 based card from InterSil (sp?). >> Originally I got the drivers from AbsoluteValue systems, gpl-ed, >> but now the drivers are included in the 2.6 kernels for Wireless-B. >> >> If you want a wireless-g card, the scene is a little more >> challenging. From what I've read, there are a few chipsets >> (Broadcom, TI ACX and Atheros) that are kind of supported using an >> ndiswrapper from sourceforge, and the Windows driver for the card. >> These cards do not, as far as I can determine, have a native linux >> driver. >> >> Intersil is following their policy fromthe earlier Prism 2, 2.5 >> and 3.0 series, of making their specs available for the Prism54 >> chips, so that there are gpl-ed, native linux drivers available >> for this wireless-g series of chips, but at least at this time >> they are only available from the Prism54 group... not in the linux >> kernel source. >> >> I found this link to be helpful: >> >> http://www.pardus-wiki.org/index.php/Ndiswrapper_Kart_Listesi >> >> It gives a list of cards and the chipset that each uses. Beware, >> they are NOT all supported in linux. Some are natively, some are >> with the ndiswrapper and others are better left alone. >> >> Know what you are getting and if/how well it is supported,before >> you buy. Don't take my word on this... I could be misunderstanding >> something, and thigs are changing rapidly in this area. >> >> HTH, >> >> --terry >> >> On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 05:43:12PM -0500, Scott Howell wrote: >>> Folks, just wanted to know what wireless cards which are pci-based >>> are known to work. I wanted to know from personal experience as I >>> need one for a desktop machine. >>> >>> tnx >>> >>> Scott >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Speakup mailing list >>> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> -- >> >> Name: Terry D. Cudney >> Phone: (705) 422-0039 >> E-mail: terry.cudney at gmail.com >> >> Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like... >> having a peeing sectionin a swimming pool. >> >> Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. >> See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iQIVAwUBQ/5zJ/Q3GgYHRr/HAQqMbhAAgR6IGYpLmZl/ZbHjI5BcLS0rcQwAX7Zo > i8sX+KgyM9Dp8a1ui2JgqSNHVbnecNjH8K1hp3BlxBxx1bpo14DsLzZG0Koeva4l > iiaN6PW1NXqRYqyu6dgVmGRDSIy0/2I5dJvNzXCy5hELg0fKs/eCkF2cH+PEH7YW > ThmhRSF+iF+HZsFq+1tnSfWa+LFHnaQB4hG/RkIiIksr47U19isr4gWuHuJEs/TK > bZv3negUCk8u8Qvsn91rDpgsM98yUcFFE3kwJi0/nWQ8xTGz9rpqKzzPrgoObhaK > LTf+V+jr+p60eZkikGsUppnsASaqqVW/D8J1UVmlByOiVvNWhsXX4NOjA8K7qfLw > /GLnSlnF1C5+OPM7iFlur7Uoz9bgu3u71v3GoxWOEFuUk6xoLxaJpnTrVb3oVh+y > HSNreQX9DwSG4liO9h4+wR/FqsPt3ASiuCIDTHiHDGDNdQ8dvddwxNtvhwI4ROCd > 6u91Q3ClP/bKAsIcJvKqM9yldQ+WN75M8Goy5wlFskOQ3AnhaCgkIqVvJQz5KCPn > fUpX7uY5vFhoOpzd71lPe6Ww0FDerRoiunlYfx/cM83OrShGYBHNuVKM1gb9GPtD > Pyx6chNRY0uZLEhKP6TbrKJSUHEb48loWLKqrgiqLJLxvqxC77ZFZxuDQXGXzSLz > xrPsQmku5qc= > =JEKX > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
