Wireless nics under debian (or linux in general)

[JJ Neff]

I finally gave up after failing to compile a new hostap driver, and failing to
compile kernel modules for 2.6.8-2-386 kernel.  (In fact as a test I tried to
compile a cmd line IRC client (from aboutdebian.com) and that failed - so I
guess I can't compile anything!).

Anywho I was able to acquire a Cisco Air PCM350.  Works flawlessly from the
word "go".  Drivers work, setup works, in fact what I got from a week of trying
to get 2 unsupported cards working was the knowledge on how best to use
supported cards (WEP enabled, automatically renames interface to cisco0 instead
of eth0 using ifrename etc etc). So I won't consider it all wasted time.  And I
can still use the SanDisk card for when I bring my work laptop home.

JJ

--- JJ Neff <jjneff at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I bought a cheap SanDisk Wireless NIC with 128 MB memory (cf formfactor) and
> it
> works fine under windows in pcmcia with adapter,
> I see it as working under linux but it uses the linux-wlan-ng prism drivers
> and
> debian has those only under unstable and then with no kernel modules for
> 2.6.8
> kernel - I tried the 2.4.27 version of kernel, modules, and pcmcia modules
> but
> the driver gave me missing symbol errors (indicating there was a kernel
> module
> mismatch).
> 
> SO I finally gave up as hostap and orinoco drivers would not work, now I have
> my hands on a linksys wpc11 ver4 (really realtek) and it seems to be
> supported
> with a still alpha realtek driver or under ndiswrapper using WinXP drivers )
>
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=333141]here
> 
> However I want to know if anyone here is unsing a pcmcia wireless nic without
> having to recompile software or use windows wrapped drivers.  Anyone have
> debian packages from linux-wlan-ng?  Anyone know of a card that works under
> debian sarge (or testing) and uses the hostap or orinoco drivers?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> JJN
> 
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