Re: wireless @ cbv

On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 09:09 +1000, Tony Langdon wrote:
> At 07:08 AM 6/27/2005, ed chan wrote:
> 
> >Wireless and Linux is almost like Win-modems; you really struggle to get
> >drivers that work under Linux. Even more so of late, As the later
> >versions of the same card that use to work under Linux now doesn't
> >( manufacturer use a different chipset in the meantime that no longer
> >uses the driver that was supported under Linux ).
> 
> In my experience, most of the 802.11b (11 Mbps) stuff and earlier seems to 
> be well supported natively.  I routinely use a 11b card in a Linux laptop 
> using native (Orinoco) drivers.
> 
> 802.11g is a different matter, and Linux support for these is much less 
> readily available. 

I installed a Netgear WG511T (802.11g) a few days ago with no troubles.
Downloaded source for MADWifi driver (Multimode Atheros Driver for WiFi
on Linux) and compiled it on FC3.  Biggest dilemma was that I needed
uudecode to compile and had to do some fishing to discover it was in a
package called sharutils.

Nathan Williams