[opensuse] PCMCIA WiFi card recommendations?
I am trying to help out a friend with his migration to Linux. One problem we're having is his current PCMCIA wireless card. It's quite an obscure brand only released in the Netherlands, and it's not co-operating with ndiswrapper (it even has limited driver support beyond Win98). So... we're thinking of taking the easy way out and just replacing it with a new PCMCIA card (USB is possible, but the preference is for PCMCIA). Does anyone have any recommendations for a PCMCIA based wireless card that is dead easy to use? - ie it is effectively working "out of the box" without having to recompile the kernel, build kernel modules etc etc etc. I know there are some out there.. like the Intel 2100 chipset in Centrino laptops... but this isn't a Centrino laptop. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am Tuesday 15 May 2007 13:09 schrieb Clayton:
I am trying to help out a friend with his migration to Linux. One problem we're having is his current PCMCIA wireless card. It's quite an obscure brand only released in the Netherlands, and it's not co-operating with ndiswrapper (it even has limited driver support beyond Win98).
So... we're thinking of taking the easy way out and just replacing it with a new PCMCIA card (USB is possible, but the preference is for PCMCIA).
Does anyone have any recommendations for a PCMCIA based wireless card that is dead easy to use? - ie it is effectively working "out of the box" without having to recompile the kernel, build kernel modules etc etc etc. I know there are some out there.. like the Intel 2100 chipset in Centrino laptops... but this isn't a Centrino laptop.
Take a look to: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ http://linuxwiki.de/LinuxWireless or ask google for e.g. "Linux wireless" to find more info. I'm using Netgear WG511T PCMCIA (PC CARD): http://www.netgear.com/Products/Adapters/SuperGWirelessAdapters/WG511T.aspx It works fine and natively (x86_64) with the madwifi driver (madwifi.org) in my AMD64 notebook (that has also some obscure onboard chip). A little bit stupid is, that the driver is not shipped on opensuse media (see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=171119); an installation repository is avaliable (10.1 ... 10.3) at: http://madwifi.org/suse/ Gruesse / Regards, Marius Tomaschewski <mt@suse.de> -- Server Technologies Team, SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg; GF: Markus Rex; HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) PGP public key on: http://www.suse.de/~mt/mt.pgp DF17 271A AD15 006A 5BB9 6C96 CA2F F3F7 373A 1CC0 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I'm using Netgear WG511T PCMCIA (PC CARD): http://www.netgear.com/Products/Adapters/SuperGWirelessAdapters/WG511T.aspx
It works fine and natively (x86_64) with the madwifi driver (madwifi.org) in my AMD64 notebook (that has also some obscure onboard chip).
That's the kind of recommendation I was looking/hoping for :-) Real experience rather than a list of chipsets on a webpage. Adding the madwifi driver from the repo is easy enough to do. Thanks... now to go find a computer shop that has this card. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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