Easy instructions for wireless card installation?

[David A. Bandel]

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On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 13:53:59 -0800
"Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> 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.

Actually, my very first WIFI card was a 2Mb linux-wlan supported card
(IIRC it was also FH vice DS).  That was years ago.  The PCI-PCMCIA
bridge cards, while not new, are very much in use.  The old ISA-PCMCIA
were (are) problematic, but fortunately are very difficult to find.  I
suggest sticking to a PCI-PCMCIA bridge based on either the Ricoh
chipset or the TI (PCIbus) chipset.  Both have worked _very_ well for
me.

> 
> 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.

My personal preference is WaveLan/Orinoco/Avaya, now pretty much Proxim.
 But make sure you get the classic card, not the client card.  The
latest card revisions from Proxim for client cards appear to be like the
WinModems of old.  Tell them you need the card to work in an AP.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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