Re: reccomendations for linux on laptop

From: Lenard (Lenard_at_127.0.0.1)
Date: 05/06/05


Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 19:54:51 GMT

Joe Doe wrote:

> Any reccomendations for what works well for a wireless card for a
> laptop? From my web searching, I've come up with two candidates: the
> Netgear
> WG511 and the Hawking HWC54G. (Atheros super-G chipset and Prism GT
> chipset respectively)

Watch out for the Netgear WG511, version 3 cards do not work and version
2 (Made in China) do not work.

FYI: the Netgear WG511 also is a prism chipset, the Netgear WG511T is
atheros chipset

03:00.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Intersil ISL3890 [Prism
GT/Prism Duette] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Netgear WG511 Wireless Adapter
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 80, IRQ 17
        Memory at 20800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
 safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."     -- B. Franklin, 1759


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