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

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Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 17:51:13 GMT

Hello,

I have been looking for a while to find a router and a wifi card that would works under linux
I finally bought this one as I foudn several person reporting it to work... I'm waiting the delivery, then I did not try personnaly but you might want to check the card out...

It works at 108 Mbits but under linux seems to go till 54mbits with the madwifi:
- Router Netgear WGT624FS
- Pcmcia card WG511T

If it was not for a laptop, sorry for answering something that does not interest you :D

Ludo

> 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.
>
>
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>
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