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#1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 05:46 AM

I'm interested in the specific make & model #'s of %s Gentoo notebook users
are using (which are easy to configure). I'm having great difficulty in
choosing one because some manufacturers seem to alternate between two
chipsets without changing the model number of the card. I almost purchased
a 3COM wireless bundle (an AP as well as PCMCIA card) only to find no
support whatsoever. A pain in the rear to find that Centrino wireless
isn't supported <curses Intel>, never mind trying to find a suitable PCMCIA
card.
--
Lee J. Moore
http://cafe-society.com

#2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 05:46 AM

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 12:46:04 +0000, Lee J. Moore wrote:

>I'm interested in the specific make & model #'s of %s Gentoo notebook users
>are using (which are easy to configure). I'm having great difficulty in
>choosing one because some manufacturers seem to alternate between two
>chipsets without changing the model number of the card. I almost purchased
>a 3COM wireless bundle (an AP as well as PCMCIA card) only to find no
>support whatsoever. A pain in the rear to find that Centrino wireless
>isn't supported <curses Intel>, never mind trying to find a suitable PCMCIA
>card.

I have the dlink dwl650+ (claims 22mbps) that uses the TI chipset. Not so
long ago there was only a mysterious binary driver, but this worked for me.
There is now an open sourse project with a working driver and under active
development http://acx100.sourceforge.net/. If you want all the various
wireless networking tools to work (airsnort etc), then you best get an
orinoco type card.

#3 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 05:46 AM

Dean Edwards wrote:
//
> I have the dlink dwl650+ (claims 22mbps) that uses the TI chipset. Not so
> long ago there was only a mysterious binary driver, but this worked for
> me. There is now an open sourse project with a working driver and under
> active
> development http://acx100.sourceforge.net/. If you want all the various
> wireless networking tools to work (airsnort etc), then you best get an
> orinoco type card.

Still not as straightfoward as I'd hoped. Some claiming that a particular
model of Orinoco silver (the only one available at my supplier
incidentally) is not supported.

--
Lee J. Moore
http://cafe-society.com

#4 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 05:46 AM

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 15:07:19 +0000, Lee J. Moore wrote:

>Dean Edwards wrote:
>//
>> I have the dlink dwl650+ (claims 22mbps) that uses the TI chipset. Not so
>> long ago there was only a mysterious binary driver, but this worked for
>> me. There is now an open sourse project with a working driver and under
>> active
>> development http://acx100.sourceforge.net/. If you want all the various
>> wireless networking tools to work (airsnort etc), then you best get an
>> orinoco type card.
>
>Still not as straightfoward as I'd hoped. Some claiming that a particular
>model of Orinoco silver (the only one available at my supplier
>incidentally) is not supported.

I may have misled you there ;-) IIRC the orinocos don't need the acx100
driver, rather the more common and better supported wlan driver.
It is tricky with wireless under linux. As you found, the manufacturers
have a habit of switching chipsets without changing the model number. I
still think the best bet is to look for (older?) orinoco cards, perhaps on
ebay. The silver and gold are basicly the same AIUI but with different
levels of WEP.
All depends on how desperate you are for the higher speeds offered by the
newer cards.

#5 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 05:46 AM

Lee J. Moore wrote:
> I'm interested in the specific make & model #'s of %s Gentoo notebook users
> are using (which are easy to configure). I'm having great difficulty in
> choosing one because some manufacturers seem to alternate between two
> chipsets without changing the model number of the card. I almost purchased
> a 3COM wireless bundle (an AP as well as PCMCIA card) only to find no
> support whatsoever. A pain in the rear to find that Centrino wireless
> isn't supported <curses Intel>, never mind trying to find a suitable PCMCIA
> card.

I have a Linksys WPC11 version 3 that uses the Prism2 chipset that has
no problems whatsoever in either slack or gentoo. I also have used some
acx100 based cards in a gentoo box of mine, working fine with the
drivers from http://acx100.sf.net, as Dean Edwards also pointed out.

#6 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 05:46 AM

> On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 15:07:19 +0000, Lee J. Moore wrote:
>
> >Dean Edwards wrote:
> >//
> >> I have the dlink dwl650+ (claims 22mbps) that uses the TI chipset. Not so
> >> long ago there was only a mysterious binary driver, but this worked for
> >> me. There is now an open sourse project with a working driver and under
> >> active
> >> development http://acx100.sourceforge.net/. If you want all the various
> >> wireless networking tools to work (airsnort etc), then you best get an
> >> orinoco type card.
> >
> >Still not as straightfoward as I'd hoped. Some claiming that a particular
> >model of Orinoco silver (the only one available at my supplier
> >incidentally) is not supported.
>

I have an Orinoco gold card and am using the pcmcia-cs orinoco_cs driver
with a great deal of success. I would check out:

http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS

as they give a pretty thorough list of supported cards. It is pretty damn
annoying how they don't change the product name when they switch
chipset... bastards ;-)!!

Cheers,
Jason

#7 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 05:46 AM

Anyone using an intel PRO based card? I was not able to get this to
work, so be careful!

HTH,
Jan

#8 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 05:46 AM

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 14:37:43 -0500, Pez Mohr wrote:

> Lee J. Moore wrote:
>> I'm interested in the specific make & model #'s of %s Gentoo notebook users
>> are using (which are easy to configure). I'm having great difficulty in
>> choosing one because some manufacturers seem to alternate between two
>> chipsets without changing the model number of the card. I almost purchased
>> a 3COM wireless bundle (an AP as well as PCMCIA card) only to find no
>> support whatsoever. A pain in the rear to find that Centrino wireless
>> isn't supported <curses Intel>, never mind trying to find a suitable PCMCIA
>> card.
>
> I have a Linksys WPC11 version 3 that uses the Prism2 chipset that has
> no problems whatsoever in either slack or gentoo. I also have used some
> acx100 based cards in a gentoo box of mine, working fine with the
> drivers from http://acx100.sf.net, as Dean Edwards also pointed out.

I have a cisco aironet 350. It worked pretty much without a hassle, ONCE i
figured out that I needed to downgrade the firmware. I spent 3 months
trying to get it working, and someone says "what version firmware is it
using" - once the firmware was the supported version, i plugged it in, and
it worked.

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