[LUGSB] Wireless card

[Hazuki Azuma]

I have a ZyDas 3134g USB wireless dongle. The drivers are available
and the module works very well, though I can only get 802.11b
performance from it. If you don't mind losing a USB port I would
suggest one of those.

On 8 Feb 2007 01:40:42 -0000, Ilya Sukhanov (dotCOMmie)
<lugsb at sukhanov.net> wrote:
>
> On 2/7/2007, "William Joseph Lahti" <wlahti at ic.sunysb.edu> wrote:
>
> >Avishay,
> >
> >Have you tried working with ndiswrapper to get your current wireless to
> >work?
>
> Ndiswrapper is evil and should be avoided at all costs.
>
> >What's the model of your card. Somebody could probably help you at
> >the next meeting.
> >
> >William Lahti
> >
> >On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Avishay Traeger wrote:
> >
> >> I've pretty much given up hope on getting the wireless on my laptop to
> >> work under Linux, and am looking to buy a pcmcia card that is very well
> >> supported.  Any suggestions?
>
> Its hard to recomend specific cards since they change what chips they
> use. But I can recomend some chips and drivers.
>
> Atheros (madwifi.org) -- They have binary blobs but work nicely
> Prism (hermes/prism driver) -- Hard to find now since they are tad old
> isl (prism54.org) -- experimental drivers (older isl is supported with
> hermes/prism drivers)
> Intel IPW -- these are quite well supported, but some have binary blobs
> (ipw3945) The later of these cards are awesome when it comes to
> reception, but I don't know if they make them in PCMCIA/cardbus factor.
> Broadcom 43XX (bcm43xx.berlios.de) -- these cards are very common in
> laptops and support is so-so.
>
> For specific cards refer to these 2 sites:
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/#whard
> http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/HardwareComparison
> (avoid anything that is only supported through ndiswrapper)
>
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Avishay
>
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