[sclug] Home wireless lan

[Tom Dawes-Gamble]

James Fidell wrote:

>Quoting Bob Franklin (r.c.franklin at reading.ac.uk):
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>>Probably not, but just consider whether you should be going for 802.11g
>>(54Mbps) rather than plain 'b'.  I'm quite happy with 'b' and the extra
>>speed wouldn't really be worth it for me - the convenience of wireless is
>>enough and, if I need the bandwidth, I prefer the 'genuine' ~100Mbps of
>>wired to the 'if you're lucky' 11Mbps (typically around 5/6Mbps) on
>>wireless and there are lot less questions with 'b', although 'g' is
>>supposedly all backwards compatible.
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>My understanding was that Linux drivers aren't available for any of the
>802.11g kit right now.  Anyone know otherwise?
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I think your right James.  In fact you need to be careful which Wireless 
Lan cards you use.
In general a prisum 2 chip set should work.  But the TI chip set 
definately doesn't.  I would only
get a card that I know worked or some I knew had one working.

Tom.