[TriLUG] Cheap supported Wireless PCMCIA card

[Dave Sorenson]

If you're stuck w/ the card you might try NDIS wrapper. It uses your windows
driver to make unsupported cards work under the penguin.
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ Another option if that doesn't work is
the Linuxant driver loader same idea as NDIS wrapper, but a commercial
venture. Downside is it costs $20. But it seems to have success on those
cards that NDIS wrapper doesn't work with (like mine)
http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader

Dave S

> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org 
> [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy Clark
> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 11:56 AM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Cheap supported Wireless PCMCIA card
> 
> Did a Freaking Search ... which almost had a winner
> 
> My problem was I went out and bought one w/out planning.
> So I have this netgear card now that
> doesn't have a driver for linux.
> 
> Thanks for the linux card link that will be helpfull.
> 
> 
> Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 14:57, Jeremy Clark wrote:
> > 
> >>Does anyone have a suggestion for a wireless pcmcia interface that 
> >>isn't expensive? This is just for personal use. I DAFS but wanted a 
> >>second opinion.
> > 
> > 
> > There has been much speculation in the IRC channel over the 
> meaning of 
> > "DAFS" -- "Direct Access File System" didn't seem to make 
> sense.  Can 
> > you explain?
> > 
> > What kind of interface are you looking for?  802.11b or g, or 
> > something else like Bluetooth?  For 802.11b, anything based on the 
> > PrismII chipset will work nicely in Linux, but I don't know 
> how hard 
> > they are to find now.  (Many of the cards that formerly 
> used PrismII 
> > now use a Broadcom shipset that isn't supported as well.)
> > 
> > --Jeremy
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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