Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Aug 2003 13:32:33 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <> | Subject | Re: Current status of Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 |
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Hello Bas , Do you (or anyone else) know which of the 'PCI' based cards are use the 'mini-pci' cards on a bridge card ?
I'd really like more of a selection to choose from than just Netgear . The Netgear card you spoke of below religously doesn't mention Linux in it's support sections . But , (hopefully) it appears that you are using under linux , correct ? Tia , JimL
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Bas Mevissen wrote: > Anders Karlsson wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 10:10, Christian Axelsson wrote: > (mini-PCI WLAN cards in notebooks) > > For the time being those mini-PCI cards is dead weight in the laptop I > > am afraid. I hope that either Intel suddenly sees sense (snowflake in > > hell analogy coming on) or some bright spark reverse engineers the card > > and writes an alpha driver that surpasses the functionality of the Intel > > beta drivers they keep under lock and key internally. > > I'll probably locate some Prism CardBus card in the meantime to use. > My dead weight was called Dell TrueMobile 1300 (with BroadCom chipset). > What I did is buying a NetGear WG311 PCI card (802.11b/g). It contains a > mini-pci card in a slot unders a metal cover and some small stuff on the > PCI-shape PCB. > The cover is easy to remove (only 3 pins) and the antenna is not > soldered, but connected with the same connector as in my notebook. I > could only connect 1 (main) antenna, but the PCI card has only one > antenna too. So you only loose antenna diversity. > The NetGear contains an Atheros chipset. There is some open source stuff > available (URL forgotten) and a driver (mafwifi) with a binary-only > hardware abstraction. Not really what you want, but at least a start. A > combination of both may lead to a more desirable result. But for me it > is fine to use. Only I can not issue bug reports when the driver has > been loaded since the last boot. > BTW. I have a PCI card with Broadcom chipset for sale now :-) -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | P.O. Box 854 | Give me Linux | | babydr@baby-dragons.com | Coudersport PA 16915 | only on AXP | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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