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jerome187
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 Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 3:32 am Post subject: Wireless PCI cards + Kernel 2.6.1 |
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What is a good (and hopefully cheap) wireless PCI card that'll work with kernel 2.6.1? It only needs to be the one of the 11Mbs ones.
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shiftzero
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 3:45 am Post subject: |
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Lucent (oriinoco) silver, or gold. They work right away and have good signal sensivity (and can be patched to monitor mode).
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jerome187
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 3:57 am Post subject: |
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| holy crap that card is 72$!! the gold one anyways, I cant find a silver version |
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jerome187
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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Seems like its cheaper to get a PCMIA -> PCI adaptor then get the PCMIA wireless card.
What adaptors are linux compatible? |
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nigelhannam
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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That's kinda what I thought, and bought a Ricoh RL5c475 chipset based adaptor.
Not having much luck at the moment. The card is recognised correctly, but as soon as I plug my prism54 pcmcia card into it the whole system hangs. System usually rights itself when I unplug the pcmcia card.
I'm guessing that it may be an IRQ allocation issue, but not sure how to resolve it.
The external drivers from pcmcia-cs accept some module options to influence the IRQ behaviour, but the in-kernel modules don't.
Looking at some of the 2.6 kernel changelogs, it looks like there may eventually be a compatibility layer to allow use of the external drivers, but I'm pretty sure it aint in place yet. |
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nigelhannam
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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| ...forgot to say, I have the pcmcia card working in my laptop, so the problem definately seems to be related to the adaptor card |
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jerome187
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 4:43 am Post subject: |
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dose anyone have a PCI -> PCMCIA adaptor working?
or any PCI neteork cards at all?
or how about that orinico USB network thingie? |
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