Recommendation on PCMCIA Wireless cards with external atenna

[Steven M. Klass]

Do NOT use the DWL-650+.  This is the card at Fry's.  It has a TI chipset in 
it, and is not compatible with the PrismII.  

FWIW I am attempting to get the siemens card to work, I think it's working, 
but I have some configuration issues.  I'll deal with that later this week.


On Wednesday 23 October 2002 17:14, Liberty Young wrote:
> I'm using the D-link DWL-650..another prism2 based card.
> I've successfully been using it on my Mandrake 8.2 laptop with
> linux-wlan-ng drivers...
> If you are going to use the Mandrake kernel, then download and install
> the linux-wlan-ng version 0.1.14-pre2....this is the only version that
> will work when compiled against a Mandrake kernel. I had the same sort
> of dmesg messages when i didn't use the ng drivers.
>
> I used that version for a long time and had no complaints...one feature
> it was missing was the ability to put the card into promiscious mode.
>
> If you are _not_ using a distro kernel, then the latest (i'm using
> 0.1.15) is fine..I've been using 2.4.19 (wanted to use ACPI), latest
> card services, and the ng latest stable ng driver for a month now and
> I've had no complaints.
>
> On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 16:47, Bryce C wrote:
> > Stay away from USR cards in linux.  Support is just starting to creep in
> > throught the prism2 modules but I've yet to get it working on SuSE 8.0
> > and just barely on Mandrake 8.2.  Other than that, I've heard Orinoco is
> > good by word of mouth.
> > Also,  can someone please help me with the previously mentioned
> > problem?  My dmesg output follows.
> > init_module: prism2_cs.o: 0.1.13-devel1 Loaded
> > init_module: dev_info is: prism_cs
> > prism2_cs: CardServices release does not match!
> > p80211.o: 0.1.13-devel1 Unloaded
> >
> > Can someone please helpp besides saying "buy a new card" which I have no
> > budget whatsoever for right now?
> >
> > On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 15:41, Liberty Young wrote:
> > > I work for a small company that is selling single board computers, one
> > > of which has a PCMCIA slot. the PCMCIA slot will be primarily used for
> > > 802.11b cards. We'd like to offer to our customers an off the shelf
> >
> > card
> >
> > > that is readily available.
> > >
> > > Does anybody have any recommendations for a good, off the shelf
> >
> > 802.11b
> >
> > > wireless card with an external antenna, or better yet, with a slot for
> > > plugging in your own external antenna? Besides being readily
> >
> > available,
> >
> > > the card would have to be supported by linux. I'm currently looking at
> > > orinocco cards. Does anybody have any other suggestions?
> > >
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