[lug] Wireless kit?

[Mr Viggy]

Another card is the Belkin FD6050 PCMCIA card.  The new version ("Ver 
2") is based on the Atmel chipset, and I could **not** get it working 
with Slackware 8.1...  The older card is a Prism based card.

Viggy

Ed Hill wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 10:14, Tony Dyson wrote:
> 
>>Now that Comcast cable has reached our neighborhood, I'm considering how 
>>best to use it. Netgear's "CG814M Wireless Cable Modem Gateway" is on 
>>their approved list & looks like a reasonable proposition.
>>
>>Googling for info on the "MA401 802.11b Wireless PC Card" produced mixed 
>>reports. Anyone got any recommendations for alternatives that work 'out 
>>of the box' with RH8?
> 
> 
> 
> Pretty much all of the cards based on the Prism2.x chipset will work
> "out-of-the-box".  See:
> 
>   http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/
>   http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS
> 
> for lists of cards known to work.  And beware of manufacturers who have
> newer cards with very similar names to the older (compatible) cards but
> use completely different (and incompatible!) chipsets.  An example
> recently discussed on this list is:
> 
>   D-Link:
>     DWL-650 ==> Prism2 chipset ==> works just fine with Linux
>     DWL-650+ ==> TI chipset ==> does *NOT* (yet?) work with Linux
> 
> The NetGear MA401, Addtron AWP-100, Linksys WPC11, and Lucent/Orinoco
> cards have all worked in my ThinkPad with KRUD 7.3 or 8.0.  And I've had
> bad experiences with a loaner Cisco Aironet card but I think that was
> due to the security setup on that network (the newer Cisco cards can
> work with both standard 802.11b and also with their own non-standard
> security extensions).
> 
> In fact, my connection at the moment is through an Addtron AWP-100.
> 
> hth,
> Ed
>