Easy instructions for wireless card installation?

[Net Llama!]

That's cause there are two different types of PCI wifi setups.  The 
older version was basically a PCMCIA slot that you could add in the form 
of a PCI card.  So it basically let you put PCMCIA cards in to a full 
size computer.

The more recent releases are simple PCI wifi cards.

That said, take your pick.  For PCMCIA, look here for what is guarenteed 
to work:
http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS

For pure PCI wifi cards, you'll need to look at the kernel source 
(xconfig is good) to see what should work.

I only use PCMCIA 802.11b wifi cards in my laptops.  I've got two (old) 
Cisco Aironet 4800 cards that work quite nicely in Linux.  AFAIK, all 
Cisco wifi aironet branded cards will work just fine in Linux.  I also 
have a Linksys WPC11v3 card that works ok.   Both of these have been EOL 
AFAIK, so unless you want to go on eBay to find them, i doubt you'll be 
able to purchase them any longer.

On 01/11/04 13:30, Joel Hammer wrote:

> I am looking for a PCI card. It is confusing because a
> lot of stuff seems to be about using a card (PCI) to hold
> a PCMCIA card.
> 
> Joel
> 
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 12:09:24PM -0800, Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>>The linux kernel source.  Are you looking for a PCI or PCMCIA card? 
>>"Linux Desktop" really implies nothing, other than non-server usage.
>>
>>On 01/11/04 12:00, Joel Hammer wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Where is there an uptodate list of supported cards?
>>>
>>>Joel
>>>
>>>
>>>On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 10:58:47AM -0800, Net Llama! wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>On 01/11/04 10:40, Joel Hammer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Can someone point me to to some explicit instructions for
>>>>>installing a wireless network card in a linux desktop? I
>>>>>am stumped by trying to figure out which cards (I guess
>>>>>you may need one or two), which drivers, and which kernel
>>>>>will work.
>>>>
>>>>The modules depend on the card.  You only need 1 card.  Any recent 2.4.x 
>>>>(2.4.18+) or 2.6.x kernel will work.
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