7 Aug
2005
7 Aug
'05
6:58 p.m.
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 01:42 -0500, Russell Hanaghan wrote:
Not sure about "lots of common devices are not
supported"...I thought
the most common wireless chips were Orinco and Prism & Prism (2).
Depending on the distro u use, wireless is fairly easy to get going. The
Dlink PCMCIA card for some reason I could not get working and it has a
prism chip but the others actually fire right up on PCLOS (MDK based
distro) and did so in Mandrake as well. Demudi even configured my Prism
based card on its own.
I think it's Prism 54 based (although not in this list).
http://prism54.org/supported_cards.php
Anyway I turned up a lot of out of date docs at first but then I found
this:
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List
Basically it seems that even the ones with no Linux driver work with
ndiswrapper. And the above doc tells you which require ndiswrapper and
which have a native driver.
Is it true that all Motorola PCMCIA cards use Broadcom chipsets so
require ndiswrapper?
Lee