Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Nov 2002 23:06:55 +0100 | From | Wolfgang Wegner <> | Subject | Re: Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset |
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Hi,
concerning all intersil-based cards, the linux-wlan-ng driver seems much more efficient than the in-kernel or pcmcia-cs code. However, linux-wlan-ng supports only prism cards.
In general, if you have a low-performance machine, go for a real PCI card (like one of those mini-pci boards on a pci adaptor card, like the Tekram PC-400 or what it's name is). The pcmcia cards (at least those non-cardbus, i did not have my hands on a cardbus card yet) impose a great load on the machine for transferring the data over the "ISA" bus. (That's another big problem of the in-kernel and pcmcia-cs "orinoco" drivers: for full-size packets, interrupts are blocked for almost 1ms for every packet. Not a problem on a GHz machine, but ugly on a 75MHz pentium 8) )
Regards, Wolfgang
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