PCMCIA Wireless Cards Recommendation for 9.0
I just installed SuSE 9 on a laptop along with win2k and, I have a linksys pcmcia card for wired networking, but if I want/need to go wireless I have to boot into windows because my belkin card is based on the Atmel chipset. So I'm looking for recommendations from anyone out there running SuSE 9.0 on a laptop as to which wireless cards will work on 9.0. If you can say whether it worked out of the box or what you had to do to get it to work. Yes I have checked the sdb but I'm sorry to say the new version of the sdb sucks. PS: I would like to stay away from broadcom based cards and that whole windows driver loader thing. TIA Rob
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 4:40 pm, Rob Sell wrote:
I just installed SuSE 9 on a laptop along with win2k and, I have a linksys pcmcia card for wired networking, but if I want/need to go wireless I have to boot into windows because my belkin card is based on the Atmel chipset.
Pcmcia I use netgear MA401, under 8.2 installation was OK but not fully automatic. On USB I use linksys WUSB11 which is atmel chipset and works fine. There are two drivers for atmel both of which work, and I thought were included in 8.2 but I may have miss remembered. Do not have 9.0 David
Hi , It depend on you card chips But now it exists also proprietary driver if you accept to pay. As I use only Linux on my Laptop, and also heavy use of network, mainly via Xdmcp, I decide yo go for 811.g card for network perf. But the only driver which work is from a canadian company called Linuxant. www.linuxant.com I dowloaded a free trial version, it work really great so I decided to go for licence as the price is affordable: less than $20. My Card is US Robotics USR 11G Turbo. Yvon Rob Sell wrote:
I just installed SuSE 9 on a laptop along with win2k and, I have a linksys pcmcia card for wired networking, but if I want/need to go wireless I have to boot into windows because my belkin card is based on the Atmel chipset.
So I'm looking for recommendations from anyone out there running SuSE 9.0 on a laptop as to which wireless cards will work on 9.0. If you can say whether it worked out of the box or what you had to do to get it to work.
Yes I have checked the sdb but I'm sorry to say the new version of the sdb sucks.
PS: I would like to stay away from broadcom based cards and that whole windows driver loader thing.
TIA Rob
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david stevenson
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Rob Sell
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Yvon VODOUNON