Re: Which PCMCIA card currently works best with NM and WPA?

[Rod <rod erinktech fuse net>]

Darren,

Thanks for the response and the advice.

This is for personal use and not any kind of distribution so I have no 
problem with fwcutter and such, as long as all the necessary pieces are 
freely available on line. I just don't like to use M$ drivers or 
somebody's obscure bootleg driver from a website in the netherworld.

What I'm really looking for is a card that will give me the least 
problems with NM even if it may not be the top rated for signal strength 
etc. Within reason of course. I don't want constant disconnects.

I really have a need for the functionality that NM is intending to 
provide and would like to get started with the current release on the 
laptop. It's a gentoo box so I can configure whatever is necessary 
fairly easily. I am expecting some problems with KDE though since NM is 
so gnome-centric at the present time, especially on gentoo. As long as I 
get a card that is familiar to the contributers to the NM mailing list, 
with a little help I should be able to get through it.

Cheap is always good too.

Rod

Darren Albers wrote:
> This list has some information specific to chipsets:
> http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManagerHardware
>
> Personally, I have had great experience with Intel based Chipsets
> however they are not available (that I am aware of) as a pccard.
>
> One of my work laptops has an Atheros chipset and it works ok outside
> of the problems with signal strength and disconnects.  I would not say
> that the driver is completely Open-Source since it has a closed-source
> HAL.
>
> The Broadcom driver has come a long way, but I /think/ it requires
> fwcutter to extract non-open firmware so you may not consider it to be
> completely open source as well.
>
> If you can find one of the older Prism54 Fullmac cards it would be
> your best bet since the driver is completely open source.
>
> Thanks,
> Darren
>
> On 3/1/07, Rod <rod erinktech fuse net> wrote:
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> > Linux x86
> > Open drivers only. No ndiswrapper please.
> > Reasonably priced even better.
> > Any suggestions?
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