Wireless Network for Linux?

I am using Linux in my computer, and I am sharing internet through router. I
am thinking of buying wirless networking card, and I don't know which one
will work with linux and if it's good for my rotuer as well?

My router is Linksys
My linux kernel is vmlinux 2.4.21
It's AMD 700mhz (Is my computer good enough for wirless network card?)

Am Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:34:08 -0500 schrieb Knoppix User:

> [...] I don't know which one
> will work with linux and if it's good for my rotuer as well?
Hi,
afaik cards with Prism chipset are recommendable (haven't tried one my
self - kinda expensive and hard to get in my region). Look at
http://prism54.org/ for more information.
Another chipset I can recommend is Ralink RT2500, although the drivers
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/rt2400/) are still kind of buggy in
a few issues.
What I can't recommend is Realtek R8180 chipset - the drivers work only
on Kernels 2.4.20 and 2.4.21 and there are a few opensource attempts to
produce better drivers, but i haven't found one for myself that worked
properly. Also my R8180 PCMCIA card only supports 11MBit/s (802.11b)


>
> My router is Linksys
(shouldn't make a difference - the supported wlan modes are relevant)
> My linux kernel is vmlinux 2.4.21
> It's AMD 700mhz (Is my computer good enough for wirless network card?)
700 MHz are more than enough - most chipsets should handle most stuff
without CPU usage (I'm working on 500MHz notebook here)


Regards,

Knoppix User <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

>I am using Linux in my computer, and I am sharing internet through router. I
>am thinking of buying wirless networking card, and I don't know which one
>will work with linux and if it's good for my rotuer as well?

>My router is Linksys
>My linux kernel is vmlinux 2.4.21
>It's AMD 700mhz (Is my computer good enough for wirless network card?)

I have interfaced these to linux:

device: dlink 122 USB 802.11b
driver: http://www.linux-wlan.com

device: Netgear WG311 PCI 802.11b/g
driver: http://madwifi.sourceforge.net/

I mostly use the dlink on an old amd k6-400 & I don't notice any undue
resource drain, so your 700 should handle wireless just fine.

What isn't obvious from the outset, is that Linux can put either of
these 2 devices [& drivers] into master mode effectively making them
into access points capable of bridging wireless networks & wireless to
wired networks. Of course, that can get you into route table madness
but it just takes time to sort it all out...:-)

Other useful sites for me have been

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/
http://prism54.org/
http://at76c503a.berlios.de/devices.html

Key is to know which drivers are available when you go shopping for
your wireless card.

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