From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HJ74p-00017O-Du for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:53:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1JBoDQG009925; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:50:13 GMT Received: from compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (213-152-39-90.dsl.eclipse.net.uk [213.152.39.90]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1JBhWMr001517 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:43:33 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.71] (funf.stroller.uk.eu.org [192.168.1.71]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B845A1372AE for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:41:53 +0000 (GMT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) In-Reply-To: <200702182319.05821.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <200702182319.05821.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <6517DD24-6C81-4548-99B8-BE6A9046AC83@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Stroller Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which wireless cardbus? Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:43:17 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Archives-Salt: 9913022a-9d33-4407-a896-121a6d6efee1 X-Archives-Hash: ae6b419dadd03b1988f1a6983343a50d On 18 Feb 2007, at 23:19, Mick wrote: > ... I am trying to > find out which WiFi cardbus to buy for my laptop. I didn't have > much joy > with a Belkin and would like to get a card which has a chipset that is > supported well in Linux. > > Which chipsets have the more mature drivers? You don't state which model of Belkin you tried, but I can assure you that they do a "set" (USB, cardbus, PCI) of 802.11g cards that are excellently supported by the rt2500 drivers. These are excellent, are OSS & you can get them with `emerge rt2500`. I've also used cards which use the prism54 & madwifi drivers, which both do "master mode" (for building a wireless access point or base- station under Linux) and are both excellent. Jean Tourrilhes' page at HP.com is quite up-to-date on the situation with the prism54 drivers, I think, and I've never seen a cardbus card using this chipset, anyway, but if you can get hold of a card that's well supported by prism54 then it's very easy to use and the driver is in the main kernel tree. The Atheros chipset supported by madwifi is capable of doing 802.11a as well as b & g - not all cards do "a", but they're not too difficult to find. madwifi-ng is a little non-standard in the way you configure the card (so I guess it might not work so well with graphical wireless configuration utilities) but it offers some more advanced features (VAPs, or "virtual access-points" in master-mode, for instance, allow you to have WEP & unencrypted interfaces on the same card; hence with iptables you can set different firewall rules for ath0 & ath1). I recommend this card, but if you're outside the UK contact in advance regarding shipping: FULL DISCLOSURE: I am involved with this supplier. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list