[Nottingham] wireless cards

[Lee]

I have an A4000 lying around, what the chances of getting netbsd on it?
also, is there such a thing as an ethernet card for an amiga?? I don't
fancy using SLIP!! :-).

Laters,
Lee
'keep it naan'


On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 19:36, .waffle wrote:
> They were, indeed, the days! NetBSD on my A1200 was an acheivement!
> 
> .waffle
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lee" <nospamlee@astarix.co.uk>
> To: <nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 6:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nottingham] wireless cards
> 
> 
> > I've had limited success with the DWL-520+ cards in linux (mandrake),
> > trouble is, it's unstable, and will panic the kernel after some time.
> > It's only a binary driver too, which is horrble, so I can't even attempt
> > to fix it myself...:-( . I think TI and the big chip makers are in
> > leauge with microsoft, they wont ublish there chipset specs so we can
> > see the peeks and pokes of a chip set, i.e. what regeisters set the
> > channel, speed of card etc etc. It's very annoying indeed...if there is
> > on thing that's going to stop linux getting main stream driver support,
> > is.....mainstream drivers support.
> >
> > Saying that, I am getting really good transfer rates with the dlink
> > cards.... there PBCC encoding really does work well, I also hear that
> > dlink have a firmware upgrade to take the chip set to 44 megs PBCC, not
> > bad at all for a 40 quid card....I'm still looking for this
> > firmware..could be vapour ware....who knows...
> >
> > You may say 'don't buy dlink', but when the actual base chip
> > manufacturer won't release specs, what are you to do? I feel we will see
> > more of this driverless problem in the future...
> >
> > I've tried looking for a Prism2 based PCI card with detachable atenna
> > and good receive senstivity, and working wireless statistics collection
> > (snr etc etc)...so far I've not had much look, the new belkin cards are
> > prism2, but I've having trouble tracking them down, as for price, who
> > knows...probably silly money.
> >
> > So..if you want a cheap pci 802.11b card, in linux...you can't :-(,well
> > not relyably anyway... please correct me if I'm wrong.. (I wish I was)
> >
> > As for 802.11g and 802.11a, I guess were going to have to wait a year or
> > two before we get drivers for it, I see dlink are doing a small wireless
> > bridge that you just connect to by ethernet, it's more expensive, but it
> > now worries with sub standard linux drivers. If you need the best card,
> > then it's got to be the cisco pci card..it's a very sexy card indeed,
> > and that's reflected (sadly) in the price.
> >
> > Long live the amiga.....:-)....those were the days...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Lee
> >
> > On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 16:57, .waffle wrote:
> > > Hi there! Whatever you do, do not buy a card with a chipset by Texas
> > > Instruments. I bought my cards back in October, and the Linux drivers
> "soon"
> > > became Linux drivers not available. How to tell what chipset? Any card
> that
> > > goes faster than 11Mbps (ie, the 22Mbps or 54Mbps cards). Mine is a
> D-Link
> > > DWL-520+ but if you see the DWL-520 (no plus) then grab it! It has
> > > manufacturer supported drivers. Also, any card with Prism 2/Orinoco
> support,
> > > although chances are you WON'T find this information on the web site of
> the
> > > vendors... well, easily at least. Finally, if at all possible, stick to
> PCI
> > > only, as they are:
> > >
> > > a) Cheaper.
> > > b) Apparently have a better transfer rate due to less connections.
> > > c) Normally have better antennae.
> > >
> > > Any more info can typically be found in the forum FAQ's of the OpenForum
> at
> > > ArsTechnica.com
> > >
> > > .waffle
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Martin Garton" <martin@wrasse.demon.co.uk>
> > > To: <nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk>
> > > Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 4:33 PM
> > > Subject: [Nottingham] wireless cards
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Can anyone recommend a pci 802.11-b card to use with linux?  I
> currently
> > > > have a pcmcia card in a isa-pcmcia bridge card, but I want to put an
> epia
> > > > based machine on the wireless network and it's pci only.  I have heard
> > > > about pci-pcmcia cards also.  Does anyone have any experience of
> these?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Martin.
> > > >
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