Re: Recommendation: Proxima Orinoco 802.11a/b/g gold combocard?

From: Scot L. Harris (webid_at_cfl.rr.com)
Date: 05/16/04

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Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 13:40:36 -0400

    On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 13:15, Satish Balay wrote:
    > On Sun, 16 May 2004, Scot L. Harris wrote:
    >
    > > Since I am not having much luck with the D-link DWL-G650 or the Linksys
    > > WPC54G wireless cards with FC1 I figure I should get a recommendation
    > > for something that works.
    > >
    > > Was looking at the Proxima Orinoco 802.11a/b/g gold combocard. Has
    > > anyone used this with FC1? Does it have any restrictions? (will it
    > > work with monitoring software?)
    >
    > Can you do lspci on the 'dlink' and see what it says? I've seen
    > some remark it as atheros - and some as prism. Does it have '802.11a'?
    >
    > Usually 802.11a supported cards are atheros chipset based. With
    > atheros - there is a chance that you can get it working with madwifi
    > driver.
    >
    > I use a mini-pci card 'IBM a/b' with I believe has an atheros 5211
    > chipset. The a/b/g cards could be Atheros 5212 chipset.
    >
    > One way to find this info is with 'lspci'. I get
    > 02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5211 802.11ab NIC (rev 01)
    >
    > I used to get numeric nubers here (which could be matched with entries
    > in the madwifi source). Do'nt know who does the translation now ..
    >
    > 02:02.0 Class 0200: 168c:0012 (rev 01)
    >
    > Satish

    The lspci actually seems to see the D-Link card

    02:00.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor D-Links DWL-g650 A1
    (rev 01)

    Based on discussions with D-link tech support and looking at the windows
    files provided it appeared this card uses a prisim chip set. May be
    wrong about that but all indications led me to that conclusion.

    This card supports only b and g protocols.

    I looked at the madwifi drivers but as you indicated they appear to
    support the atheros chipset.

    At present I am looking for a solution to either get the D-link
    DWL-G650, the linksys WPC54G or buy another card that will work.

    Any recommendations? Does FC2 have better wireless support? I am
    willing to install that when it is available.

    Thanks for the response. 

    -- 
Scot L. Harris <webid@cfl.rr.com>
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