<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jim Ockers</b> <<a href="mailto:ockers@ockers.net">ockers@ockers.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Jeff,<br><br>Jeff Cann wrote:<br>><br>> Hi.<br>><br>> I'm currently using a Linksys WPGXYZ under ndiswrapper. It works great<br>> until you use WEP and then it proceeds to lock up my system. Rather<br>
> than spending more fruitless hours in vain hopes of getting the $30<br>> LinkSys card working, I'd rather buy something supported natively by the<br>> 2.6 kernel.<br>><br>> Based on this page, the Prism54 driver seems like a decent choice for
<br>> pcmcia wireless 802.11g replacement card"<br>><br>> <a href="http://hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.802.11ag.html#Prism54">http://hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.802.11ag.html#Prism54
</a><br><br>Any particular reason you aren't using Atheros hardware? The chipsets<br>are very good and there are Linux drivers, madwifi, which are also very<br>good. We've used them for WPA and WEP with no significant problems.
<br><br>There are D-Link cards with Atheros chips in them. Not sure about<br>Linksys.<br><br>You might have to compile the driver, not sure if it's in the 2.6 kernel<br>or not. However I didn't find it hard to get working.
<br><br>Hope this helps,<br>Jim<br><br>--<br>Jim Ockers, P.Eng. (<a href="mailto:ockers@ockers.net">ockers@ockers.net</a>)<br>Contact info: please see <a href="http://www.ockers.net/">http://www.ockers.net/</a><br>_______________________________________________
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<br></blockquote></div>I
ended up with an Atheros chip set on a Proxim card. I use madwifi with
no problems. There is an excellent walk through the compile action on
Novell Cool Solutions "Compiling Kernel Drivers for SUSE 10 by Example"<br>
Joe<br>