[NBLUG/talk] WiFi (802.11b) and linux

Dave Sisley dsisley at arczip.com
Sat Nov 22 06:02:01 PST 2003


On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 10:27:33PM -0800, Mark Janes wrote:
> >
> Dave,
> 
>   Just noted in your last posting that you're running SuSE. They (SuSE)
> believe that the orinoco driver will run a prismII based card. It will-
> sort of, but the interface is REAL brittle; even 5 megabytes of data
> through would crash mine so bad I had to reboot to reactivate the
> interface :-( . If by some chance you end up with a prism2 card, it has
> to be configured manually, but it's not too hard, just follow the
> directions on the linux-wlan-ng project. This is only if you end up with
> a prismII card, otherwise, if you can get an orinoco card, YaST will
> happily set it up. BTW, the URL
> http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html not only has a fairly
> complete list of which driver works with which card.


Thanks for the tip, Mark.  The card I'm using is a Belkin F5D6020,
which runs off of the Atmel chipset.  This is version 2; the original
design did use prism2, I believe.

The documentation is sketchy (but improving) on the Atmel drivers.
There weren't any drivers for it until earlier this year, I think, but
I see more useful info in google these days.

-dave.



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