802.11g madness

[Dennis Ruzeski]

A gotcha on a lot of the wireless cards on the compatability list is that 
it's usually version 1 of the card that works. The other real PITA is that 
the outside will have no mention of a version number and next thing you know 
you open a box to find MA411v4 on the card. That's the difference between a 
nice compatable prism2 chipset and some windows only crap.

I use the following cards in laptops--
Linksys WPC55AG -- atheros chipset; uses madwifi driver
Netgear MA401 -- prism2 chipset; uses orinoco or host_ap driver
D-Link DCF-650W w/ compact flash pcmcia adapter -- prism2 chipset; uses 
orinoco or host_ap driver.

I use the Linksys in my main laptop. The other 2 go in laptops with Auditor 
Security Toolkit installed for sniffing/WEP cracking and as such, I use the 
more versatile host_ap driver.

If you're not sure of a card's chipset, pop it in a laptop with either the 
latest Knoppix or the Auditor kit and see what drivers it installs.

Good Luck 
--Dennis







On 9/5/05, Richard Hubbard <hubbardr at adelphia.net> wrote:
> 
> I am going mad. I am looking for an 802.11 cardbus/pcmcia card for my
> laptop. My dlink almost works, but with the release of fedora core 4,
> it seems that redhat moved all the sources to different locations, and
> the drivers no longer want to compile.
> 
> I have coding to do for in my Operating Systems class that I really
> don't want to be bothered with this crap.
> 
> Does anyone know of an 802.11 card that meets any or all of the
> following requirements:
> 1. Just _WORKS_ in FC4 without any other fuss
> 2. Drivers install with a VENDOR SUPPLIED RPM so that it will just work.
> 3. Drivers work with an OS Community supplied RPM so that it just works.
> 
> The issue with FC4 is that I am teaching a class which is based on RH
> linux, and it is easier to demonstrate similar utilities with Fedora.
> 
> If necessary, I'll bail and go back to FC3 which worked. But if anyone
> can help, I would be most grateful.
> 
> Bob, didn't you have an 802.11 card that just works?
> 
> Thanks!
>
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