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vasudevank
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 Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 6:20 pm Post subject: wireless cards |
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| I am looking for a new wireless card for a Dell Inspiron 5100 that is compatible with gentoo linux (hopefully right out of the box). Any suggestions would help |
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feiticeir0
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| Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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Hello.
Well, i dont know if the computer you specified is a laptop or a desktop computer, but, if it is a desktop computer, you could buy one with atheros chipset.
I have one in my desktop computer and works almost out of the box (just need to unmask the madwifi drivers, emerge them and you're done) ! 
at least this is my experience... I never had problems with that wireless card !
i guess that, any wireless card with atheros, orinoco and prism2/2.5/3 chipsets works well !
Cheers,
Bruno Santos
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certocivitas
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| Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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| I second the atheros suggestion. I have a laptop that uses Intel's IPW2200 and it works fine too. |
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vasudevank
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| Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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| for a laptop, will atheros prism work out of the box, or do i have to configure |
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truekaiser
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| Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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| vasudevank wrote: | | for a laptop, will atheros prism work out of the box, or do i have to configure |
for the prism you will have to get the firmware. i belive there is a ebuild for it in portage.
i have the inspiron 5100 and it works fine with a netgear wg511 rev01 |
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pjp
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oggialli
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| Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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IPW2100/IPW2200/IPW2915.
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JROCK2004
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| Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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| What are the names of these cards? |
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vasudevank
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| Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 2:48 am Post subject: |
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ipw stands for INTEL PRO WIRELESS
and the numbers are different models |
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