[clue-tech] USB Wireless compatability

[Warren Turkal]

On Wednesday 21 February 2007 08:48, Russell Glissmann wrote:
> However, there are no wired connections 
> within a reasonable distance, but we do have a wireless network as well. 
> The machine I'm planning on using does not have a PC Card slot, but it does
> have USB.  Does anyone have experience using any of the USB Wireless
> devices with Linux?  Any recommendations as to adapter?

I would check out [1]. I have used a related PC card chipset in the past and 
it worked pretty well. The softmac version of the driver is not included in 
the stock kernel, but some distros may package the softmac version if you 
need it.

> How about which
> Distro to use? I was thinking of using either CentOS, Knoppix (possibly
> from a hard drive install), or Fedora 5 (just happens I have the CD's on
> hand).

CentOS is probably not a good choice due to the poor support for wireless in 
older kernels. I use Debian and find it easy to keep up to date. You might 
try Ubuntu or Debian.

[1]http://www.prism54.org/

wt
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Warren Turkal (w00t)