Re: 802.11g Wireless NIC for Desktop

From: Derrick 'dman' Hudson (dman_at_dman13.dyndns.org)
Date: 06/18/04

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    On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 09:46:09PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
    |
    | On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Doug MacFarlane wrote:
    |
    | > I'm converting to 802.11g at my new place. What NIC do you recommend for
    | > my Debian Unstable (sid) desktop? I'm looking for something that I can
    | > install, and load the drivers via modconf and be done . . . .
    |
    | i want $100B tooo and not have to pay taxes either
    |
    | ez answer ... get a cisco 350 or something .. since it's supported
    | by the kernel or prism2 based cards

    The prism2 chips only do B, not G. If you use a 2.6 kernel then you
    need to compile the driver yourself using one of the latest
    pre-release versions. I'll let you know how it works after mine
    arrives sometime next week.

    The PrismGT chips appear to be well-supported and the driver
    ('prism54') is included in the 2.6.6 kernel. However, don't get a
    PrismGT -USB- adapter yet -- that code isn't anywhere close to being
    finished. (I bought a Linksys WUSB54G and discovered after-the-fact
    that the usb driver has no hope of working at this time, despite the
    chart on prism54.org reporting 89 or so successes with that adapter)

    Don't get anything with a Broadcom chip -- they haven't released any
    specs or drivers.

    The linux-wlan.org site has some good information (namely
    http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz).

    HTH,
    -D 

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