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SubjectRe: WLAN drivers
On 2/3/06, Panagiotis Issaris <takis.issaris@uhasselt.be> wrote:

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> And now the reason I'm sending this to this mailing list: Which wireless
> network cards are you all using and which ones would you recommend? Is
> anyone using USB wireless network cards (without using ndiswrapper)?

I have had no problem with a USR2210 PC Card for my Dell laptop,
running the soon-to-be-in-mainline ACX drivers by Andi Mohr and
more recently Denis Vlasenko. This driver is at the moment in -mm.

The newer laptop runs an Intel 2200BG with in-kernel drivers fine, apart
from not dealing well with being put in monitor mode (firmware restarts
every few seconds gobbling 70% CPU even with very low traffic). As a
matter of fact, current drivers won't even allow you to put the card in
monitor mode - you have to explicitly enable the code by editing the
source files; that's intentional as the developers know about the issue.

--alessandro

"Somehow all you ever need is, never really quite enough, you know"

(Bruce Springsteen - "Reno")
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