[lug] Linux and wireless

[Nate Duehr]

Daniel Webb wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 01:21:11PM -0700, Craig Talbert wrote:
> 
>> AFAIK the ndiswrapper works for most popular wireless devices:
>>
>> http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> The wiki has a list of cards known to work:
>>
>> http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List
> 
> Has anyone used this heavily?  I haven't tried it, and it may be great, but
> the skeptic in me says: "glue buggy Windows drivers on top of an emulation
> layer?  You must be joking."

Every day for a Sony GC-59 card.

Very stable, but doesn't sleep/resume correctly under Linux (ndiswrapper 
doesn't like that at all), and most of the advanced features like signal 
strength are somewhat out to lunch.

No problems at all making it talk to anything I've tried yet, though.

Nate