Re: [CUWiN] Good Wireless card for nodes?
Shankar Rao <[email protected]>
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>> Hello I am interested in setting up three nodes around town. I believe >> all of these locations are within range of other nodes. >> >> location #1: 311 W. High St. > > Is that the corner of High & McCullough? No it's the corner of High and Birch. Very close to one of the other nodes. >> location #3: Broadway, between Washington and Nevada > > That is a stone's throw from my place. Sweet. Looking at the coverage map, it seems like it has the potential to bridge the two networks. Is the coverage map up to date? >> I'm looking to buy the proper equipment for all of these places. Is >> there a certain type of PCI wireless card I should get? I figure that >> I >> probably don't need an 802.11g card, but I would want one with decent >> Unix support (since the node software uses NetBSD). >> >> Here are a couple candidates: >> >> Belkin PCI 802.11b >> D-Link PCI 802.11b >> Linksys PCI 802.11g >> >> I'm leaning toward the D-Link, because it seems to strike a good >> balance between price and driver support. > > This is where things get *really* confusing. There are several > revisions > of the D-Link. See <http://www.dlink.com/products/support.asp?pid=42>. > We support revisions A and B, but they are obsolete---I don't even > know if you can buy them (new) in the U.S.! Revisions C and D have the > ADMtek chip, which *is* supported. I will add support for revision E > if somebody will buy me one. > > Some (all?) of the D-Link cards require a 3.3V PCI 2.2 bus, only. > I know from experience that many old PCs have a 5V PCI 2.0 or PCI 2.1 > bus. > > D-Link advertises the fact that the DWL-G520 has an Atheros chip on it. > Our support for Atheros is stabilizing, so Atheros chips are worth a > try. > > The Linksys .11g card probably contains the Broadcom chip, which is > *not* supported. > > We support Version 1 and Version 2101 of the Belkin card. > > For this e-mail, I have used this great reference, > <http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/ > Client_5fAdapters_5f802_5f11b>. So it seems that I should get the Belkin card then. Alright. Shankar "If what they say is 'Nothing is forever', then what makes Love the exception?" -- OutKast _______________________________________________ CU-Wireless mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cu.groogroo.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/cu-wireless Project Page: http://cuwireless.ucimc.org