[SC.LUG] wireless card

[Rob]

On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 08:55 +0000, Damian Parker wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 00:37 +0000, George wrote:
> > llew wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > > 
> > > I'm urgently in need of a wireless pcl card (having just spent many
> > > hours/days  trying to get one going) that works out of box.? on GNU/Linux.
> > 
> > http://users.linpro.no/janl/hardware/wifi.html might help point you in 
> > the right direction. Or, if you have a look on eBuyer or some other shop 
> > that allows comments, sometimes people will mention their success with 
> > using it with linux.
> >
> > The main thing is to use as recent as possible a distribution of Linux 
> > as wifi support is getting better all the time. Out of the ones I've 
> > used Ubuntu seemed to have particularly good support.
> 
> Its rather down to software versions of kernel and drivers than a
> distribution itself. Remember each item can be downloaded from its
> origin and compiled to your needs.
> 
> > Or, if it's appropriate to where you're wanting to use it you could just 
> > buy a wireless bridge for your ethernet connection but that's cheating a 
> > bit :)
> 
> Been down that road myself, I think currently this is the only way
> forward to acheive 54Mbps + speed, if you refuse to use windows drivers.
> and the dll wrapper.
> 
> 

I know I'm a bit late to this one, but I've been using the D-link 54M
card for ages now. It uses the atheros chipset.  

In a Fedora environment using the atrpms.repo you simply 
yum install madwifi, 
which installs madwifi and the madwifi-kmdl-<uname -r> package.

hth anyone else considering 54M wireless


Rob
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