Wifi and Linux (Was: [Gllug] Linux on Desktop )

[Caroline Ford]

Dan Kolb wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:36:23AM +0000, Ryan Cartwright wrote:
>   
>> For example I have two Netgear WG511 PCMCIA cards. Both are version 2 of
>> the card, the first one I bought (having researched first) has a prism
>> chipset and works well with the prism54 driver. The second one (which I
>> bought six months later and "knowing" the card worked) has a different
>> chipset (Marvell) for which there is no free software drivers[1]. I had
>> to resort to ndiswrapper and the supplied W2K driver - which is not what
>> I wanted to do[2]. I'd prefer not to but as this card is not used as
>> often I am putting up with the ndiswrapper workaround for now.
>>     
>
> This is where I can be really irritating and state that according to the
> OpenBSD hardware list, OpenBSD does support the WG511, WG511v2 and WG511v3
> cards without having to resort to hacks like ndiswrapper. The only caveat is
> that the firmware is non-free, and has to be downloaded separately.
>
> Dan
>   
Which driver works with marvell chipsets? I reckon this is the naming 
issue again..

I reckon OpenBSD and linux support for wifi are about the same to be 
honest - and I use both.

Caroline
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