[sclug] Wireless card on Linux

[Benjamin Johnson]

Having had many years experience with wireless (pre. 802.11b even) my advice
would be to get a prism based card.

Your life will be made, so so much easier.

Wireless is my day job, and http://www.piertopier.net is my hobby (I'm a
founder member of the project) - so I hope I know what I'm talking about!

Cheers,

Ben

On 21/08/06, Alex Butcher <lug at assursys.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Tom Chance wrote:
>
> > On Monday 21 August 2006 18:17, Alex Butcher wrote:
> >> On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, n.a.haughton at bigfoot.com wrote:
> >>> Can any one offer advice recommendations on any of the following
> >>> offerings?
> >>>
> >>> http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/cat/Wireless/subcat/PCI-Adapters
> >>>
> >>> I suppose I'm really seeking a painless solution, if there is one.
> >>
> >> The most painless will probably be something using a Prism or Cisco
> Aironet
> >> chipsets (as these chipsets require no firmware downloads, and their
> >> drivers are in the mainline kernel). Expect to pay more than these
> prices,
> >> even on eBay.
> >
> > Or the RaLink rt2500 chipset, which is well supported and included by
> some
> > distributions such as (K)Ubuntu by default and considerably cheaper than
> the
> > Prism or Cisco cards:
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/rt2400
>
> Yes, that would probably be next on my list, particularly as Ralink wrote
> the drivers then GPL'ed them, which is The Right Thing To Do, and deserves
> rewarding. Unfortunately, the drivers still aren't in the mainline kernel,
> so it's not entirely painless, unlike Prism and Cisco.
>
> > I've got a PCMCIA rt2500 card, it set me back about ?15 at the time and
> it
> > works perfectly :) Don't know if any in that list have this chip set
> though.
>
> <http://ralink.rapla.net/> is a list of devices which use the RT2500.
>
> > Regards,
> > Tom
>
> Best Regards,
> Alex.
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