Re: aklug Digest V3 #96

From: W.D.McKinney <deem@wdm.com>
Date: Fri May 07 2004 - 07:35:15 AKDT

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Thomison, Lee [mailto:ThomisonL@ci.anchorage.ak.us]
>Sent: Friday, May 7, 2004 03:05 PM
>To: aklug@aklug.org, 'Jim'
>Subject: RE: aklug Digest V3 #96
>
>
>
>Very regrettably, wireless on linux doesn't 'just work'. That is one of
>the (few) great throw-it-against-the-wall frustrations I regularly
>experience with linux.
>
>Altho some distros may work it better than others, I have yet to
>discover one. Even mandrake doesn't do so good a job (although I
>haven't tried it with Mandrake 10).
>

Alas, you have not been at the Friday Night meeting and seen SuSE work
perfectly on some laptops.

Dee

>For 802.11b, the most common chipset is the prism-based chipsets (e.g.
>linksys). Those have the most widespread support base in linux.
>
>I've also worked with the cisco aironet, and
>Orinoco/agere/whatever-they-are-this-week PCMCIA cards. They all work
>with some finagling. Of them all, I prefer the agere/Orinoco cards.
>
>Non-WEP setups are significantly (orders of magnitude) easier to get
>working than WEP setups.
>
>I have never succeeded in getting any Dlink PCI or PCMCIA cards to work
>(those are prism based, so go figure)
>
>Ditto for netgear USB 802.11b.
>
>Multiple WEP setups (home, office, client, all different) have proven
>impossible to make switching between them automatic, and the time
>required to do it manually is a crapshoot...maybe it works first
>time...maybe 30 minutes later it still doesn't work.
>
>If I decide to get another, I'd probably get an agere card, or a linksys
>card.
>
>HTH,
>
>Lee
>
>------------------------------------
>
>Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 21:24:49 -0800
>From: Jim <jsw@wadell.org>
>Subject: Wireless card
>
>Can anyone recommend a linux-friendly (no wierd drivers, etc) wireless=20
>card? Looking for something that "just works"
>
>Jim
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