[lug] Linksys PCI/PCMCIA Wireless

[Hugh Brown]

<soapbox>
I have been rather frustrated by an access point that we got (it was
cheap).  For whatever reason it will only talk to windows clients.  We had
a wireless palmOS based device that couldn't talk to it as well as two or
three different wireless cards under linux that worked fine in other
environments.  I have been rather turned off by Linksys as a whole.  Their
DSL router had a heavily java script based web server in it for doing
configuration that would barf if you used any kind of linux based browser.

</soapbox>
FWIW,

Hugh



"Nate Duehr"
> 
> Really Hugh?  I see plenty of support out there for them in true PCMCIA
> mode on like laptops, etc... and it appears people have them working.  I
> just can't find much info about the PCI to PCMCIA bridge hardware
> support.
> 
> Hmm...
> 
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 04:35:39PM -0500, Hugh Brown wrote:
> > I've not been impressed with Linksys wireless products at all.
> > 
> > I've had no luck with them and linux.
> > 
> > Hugh
> > 
> > "Nate Duehr"
> > > 
> > > Anyone had any luck getting the Linksys 802.11b wireless ethernet cards
> > > working under 2.4 kernels in a desktop machine using the PCI/PCMCIA
> > > bridge card they sell?
> > > 
> > > RedHat 7.2 doesn't seem to generically recognize it, but the wlan
> > > project stuff doesn't seem to be very mainstream yet.  I am going to
> > > attempt to compile support for that into the kernel tonight, but was
> > > hoping one of the wireless nuts here on the BLUG list might have already
> > > been through the pain.  :-)
> > > 
> > > Google searches have only been minimally effective, telling me that I'm
> > > out on the bleeding edge a bit here again.  (sigh...)