[CLUE-Tech] 802.11b at home with VDSL

[Ed Hill]

On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 09:10, Jason Canney wrote:
> How well is 802.11b supported by Red Hat 7.3?  Are there drivers for it
> already installed?  Will I need to search the internet for the correct
> drivers?


Hi Jason,

I've had great luck with cheap cards such as:

  Addtron AWP-100, D-Link DWL-650, Netgear MA401

which are all based on the Intersil Prism-2 chipset.  Both RH 7.2 and
7.3 have auto-detected them and run without any problems on my ThinkPad
and on a number of other laptops (I have two cards and lend them out). 
Yes, they will give a warning if you use the older wlan_cs driver, but
I've had no problems getting connected to many different access points.

More information at:

  http://www.goonda.org/wireless/prism2/
  http://www.linux-wlan.org/index.html
  http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS

hth,
Ed

-- 
Edward H. Hill III, PhD    |  Email:       ed at eh3.com, ehill at mines.edu
Post-Doctoral Researcher   |  URLs:        http://www.eh3.com
Division of ESE            |   http://wasser.mines.edu/people/edhill.php
Colorado School of Mines   |  Phone:       303-273-3483
Golden, CO  80401          |  Fax:         303-273-3311
Key fingerprint = 5BDE 4DA1 66BE 4F7B BC17  3A0C 932B 7266 1E76 F123