Re: Wireless cards...

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 10:18 -0700, Cliff Wells wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 09:43 -0700, John Hampton wrote:
> > Tobias Rice wrote:
> > > Greetings, all.
> > > I need to buy a pcmcia wireless card that will be able to do wireless
> > > auditing under linux. I'm getting conflicting suggestions about which
> > > card to get. Prism I chipsets are open but very unstable. Some of the
> > > others work well but offer no support in linux. I've also heard that
> > > some of the manufactures changed chipsets w/o changing the model. Any
> > > suggestions on a make and model that will work? External antenna jacks a
> > > plus.
> > 
> > Look for Prism 2 and above chipsets.  I have a couple Linksys WPC11 v3 
> > cards that work great.  No external antenna jack though.
> 
> Second that choice.  That card is basically plug and play.  Just watch
> out for the v4 card which has a different chipset (I understand it can
> work with some proprietary drivers and a bit of hacking, but screw
> that).
> 
> Incidentally, Robby just bought a new wireless card that he got to work
> under Linux and might share his experience, if he's not too uppity.
> 
 
Yeah, it is a Netgear WG511. Got it to work on my gf's FC2 laptop using
the prism54 drivers. Works like a champ..

-Robby

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