[TriLUG] Cheap supported Wireless PCMCIA card

[Dave Sorenson]

Broadcom chipsets seem to be borgizing the planet. The big problem is that
card makers have changed the chipsets without changing the card model
numbers and broadcom is reluctant to release specs for driver writers nor
Linux drivers.

My laptop has a built in broadcom chipset wlan adapter. I've gotten it to
work with NDIS wrapper kinda, but ended up having to spend $20 with linuxant
for their driver loader as the most reliable solution. I'm still trying to
get several networks pre-configured so I can activate the connection based
on if I'm @work, or @home, or nomadic. Does anyone know of issues with
profiles when using a wrapper?

Dave S.

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org 
> [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy Portzer
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 4:49 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Cheap supported Wireless PCMCIA card
> 
> 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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