Re: Conexant cards -- Mostly softmac now

Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> Due to the MANY problems MANY people are having I've updated the
> supported_cards page with the following disclaimer:
> 
> We have a problem. Manufacturers started buying the SoftMAC chipsets,
> which are not yet supported and may never be, as drop-in-replacements 
> for the FullMAC chipsets without changing PCI IDs and apparantly 
> sometimes not changing even the FCC ID. That said, you are better 
> off first testing a card before buying it. If you can't test a card 
> and want linux support, I can recommend you just not buy a prism 
> 802.11g based chipset for now.
> 
> So now what? Well we have the centrinos and ralink. More to come soon

And atheros with madwifi drivers.

> RAlink:
> http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
> 
> Anyone know if the specs are open for the ralinks?

It seems ralink develops their drivers closed and then release it as 
open source later, but I've not had a front seat.

As before I have a wifi on Linux overview page of limited scope at 
http://users.linpro.no/janl/hardware/wifi.html.

Nicolai