Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Feb 2006 20:32:09 +0100 | From | Alessandro Suardi <> | Subject | Re: WLAN drivers |
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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"
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