Several times I've come close to buying the Netgear WG511 or WG511T, but I'm not sure what chipsets they use. What I ended up doing was buying an SMC2835W, which is a 54 Mbps card using the Intersil 3890 chipset. I found a driver for this, and I'm trying to install that on a Fedora Core /test2 machine. Having difficulty with it. I think one problem might be that I incorrectly set up a WEP key when I shouldn't have.
So I also want an 802.11b card that is plug and play because someone close to me does a lot of wireless networking and I want to be able to instant message that person quickly.
As to your other questions -- about 32 bit CardBus...I'm not sure. Only now, for the first time, am I seriously dabbling with PCMCIA cards in Linux.
Bob
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
I will repeat again... (I've actually done this a few times)
Netgear MA401 Works like a Charm. It's aPrism II Chipset. loades the Orinico_cs drivers for Redhat 9.
It's a 16bit card.
Frankly, what's the difference between the 16bit and the 32 bit cards anyway? it's 802.11b..11Mbps so.. unless you're getting the 802.11g 54mpbs then maybe a 32bit is needed. (correct me if I'm wrong)
However, I think frequency hopping is not configurable.. anyone knows how to see what channel the card's on?
I can manually set it using the redhat-config-network but everytime I activate it it says.."Set Frequency not supported"
Cheers,
Mun Heng, Ow
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-----Original Message----- From: James Allman [mailto:james@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 1:43 AM To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: 802.11b Wireless PCMCIA Card Reccomendation Wanted
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 10:58, Robert L Cochran wrote:
Is there an 802.11b wireless PCMCIA (32 bit cardbus) network adapter that will work 'out of the box' that I can buy right now (without any chipset problems to worry about, I mean)?
I've got an Orinoco Gold 802.11b card. It's truly plug and play under Red Hat 9. http://www.proxim.com/products/wifi/client/11bpccard/index.html
I've heard the Netgear MA401 works as well but I don't have any experience with it. They key is the Prism chipset.
Here's a site with some more information about wireless on Linux in general: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/
- James
I would like to just plug this thing in and set up a WEP key and sign on to the internet from a T-Mobile Hotspot. I guess I'm confused about just how to get this going in Red Hat 9. Or maybe I'm not supposed to be using WEP keys with T-Mobile.
Thanks a lot!
-- Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA http://greenbeltcomputer.biz/
-- Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA http://greenbeltcomputer.biz/
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