[TriLUG] 802.11a/b/g?

paul ppeeler at gmail.com
Mon Nov 8 10:41:01 EST 2004


for a list of cards supported by the prism54 driver in the 2.6 kernel,
check out:

http://prism54.org/supported_cards.php

With the firmware provided over there, you can use the wireless-tools
in linux to do even more with your card than HostAP can provide.




On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 08:48:39 -0500, Israel J Pattison
<israelpattison at gmail.com> wrote:
> I couldn't follow whether you were looking for a PCMCIA card or a PCI
> card.  On the PCMCIA front, I bought a new Linksys WPC55AG Dual-band
> card two weeks ago.  Popped it into my Thinkpad T22 runing SuSE 9.1
> Professional, and it worked on the spot.  I had to go into YaST to set
> up the access point info, but I didn't have to configure any drivers.
> So far it has worked wonderfully on both 802.11b and g.
> 
> Israel
> 
> On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 06:39:55 -0500, Matthew Lavigne
> 
> 
> <maillist at shenandoahkennels.net> wrote:
> > On Thursday 04 November 2004 2:38 pm, P. L. Charles Fischer wrote:
> > > I am looking for a 802.11 card for a and g card (I need b, but that should
> > > be covered by the g, right?).  So what is the best card for Linux (Fedora
> > > Core 2 and RedHat 9)?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Charles Fischer
> >
> >
> > If you give me a week or so I will let you know how my Netgear PCI card
> > install goes.  It is a b/g card and is supposed to be based on the Prism54 or
> > TI chip.  I will post a note when I have it setup.
> >
> > Matthew Lavigne
> >
> >
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