Linux support??

Which Wi-Fi vendors/products/models have the best Linux support??

I see many providers of PCI adapters for Wi-Fi PC Cards but I havent seen
anything about linux support for these adapters.. also I see many PCI Wi-Fi
adapters starting to appear but again very little on Linux support..

Is there a particular chipset to look out for for the best Linux support or is
each vendors product different even if they use the same chipset??

While I am at it what is the USB Wi-Fi adapter support like in Linux?

Thanks

I tried to find a card that is supported under Linux - but all the models I
could find had been replaced with newer models - some using different
chipsets.

The manufacturers change the internals of the cards but keep the same same
model number.

I have a Linksys WRT54G that has nmap states Linux is running in it - why
cant we get the drivers for the 54G cards that they use.

I bought a Orinoco Gold card just cause it will run with Linux as well as
Windoze

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> The linux-wlan-ng project provides support for Prism based cards
> (PCI/PCMCIA/USB). From what I've seen, these are the most popular.
> However, the network setup utilities that come with the Mandrake and
> Red Hat Linux distros provide a fairly long list of other supported
> wifi cards. But, there are still some issues to be worked out.
>
> WipeOut wrote:
>
>> Which Wi-Fi vendors/products/models have the best Linux support??
>>
>> I see many providers of PCI adapters for Wi-Fi PC Cards but I havent
>> seen anything about linux support for these adapters.. also I see
>> many PCI Wi-Fi adapters starting to appear but again very little on
>> Linux support..
>>
>> Is there a particular chipset to look out for for the best Linux
>> support or is each vendors product different even if they use the
>> same chipset??
>>
>> While I am at it what is the USB Wi-Fi adapter support like in Linux?
>>
>> Thanks

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 14:02:31 +0000 (UTC), WipeOut <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Which Wi-Fi vendors/products/models have the best Linux support??

I've had good success with the Senao/Engenius cards with the wlan-ng and
hostap drivers (these are pcmcia cards but they work fine in an adapte).
I've also used 11MB Netgear cards (both PCI and pcmcia) and just last week a
Linksys (wpc11 in an adapter I think). Probably the easiest to find cards
would be the Netgear 802.11B stuff.

>
> I see many providers of PCI adapters for Wi-Fi PC Cards but I havent seen
> anything about linux support for these adapters.. also I see many PCI Wi-Fi
> adapters starting to appear but again very little on Linux support..

The Belkin PLX (sort of a stripped down pci-pcmcia adapter for wireless
only) adapters seem to work fine.

> Is there a particular chipset to look out for for the best Linux support or is
> each vendors product different even if they use the same chipset??

Anything with a Prism 2 or 2.5 chipset should work fine. They used to be
VERY popular but newer cards seem to be using other chipsets.


> While I am at it what is the USB Wi-Fi adapter support like in Linux?

Worse I think the Netgear 802.11B USB adapter works with the wlan-ng
drivers but I'm not positive.

--
Ray

WipeOut wrote:

> Which Wi-Fi vendors/products/models have the best Linux support??
>
> I see many providers of PCI adapters for Wi-Fi PC Cards but I havent seen
> anything about linux support for these adapters.. also I see many PCI
> Wi-Fi adapters starting to appear but again very little on Linux support..
>
> Is there a particular chipset to look out for for the best Linux support
> or is each vendors product different even if they use the same chipset??
>
> While I am at it what is the USB Wi-Fi adapter support like in Linux?
>
> Thanks

I have an Atmel chipped Sitecom WL-011 (www.sitecom.com) running pretty fine
now. It didn't run out of the box but googling helped me out (again :-).
Also, upgrading to kernel 2.4.21 solved the problem of losing connection
once in a while (ranging from every few minutes to a few times a day). I
think Sitecom also has a usb wireless adapter that should run under linux.

Good luck,
Marc
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Dell Latitude C800, 384MB

Keith Roberts <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I tried to find a card that is supported under Linux - but all the models I
> could find had been replaced with newer models - some using different
> chipsets.

The Microsoft wireless stuff uses prism chipsets and tends to work quite
well with both linux-wlan-ng and HostAP.

- Pizza
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In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
"WipeOut" <(E-Mail Removed)> says:

>Which Wi-Fi vendors/products/models have the best Linux support??

Anything based on the PRISM II chipset (so far, I've used the Orinoco
series, a D-Link 650, an Engenius 2052EL) works fine, for sure. There
are other vendors supported, as well.

-Kenny

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