All, (Finegan):

Been reading forums, I guess one of the best cards is orinoco silver/gold. Question is, which one??

1. Lucent
2. Proxim.

Proxim is selling one called Orinoco Gold/silver a/b/g combo. Cool. But Jean says

"These are other hardware that people often confuse with the Wavelan IEEE/Orinoco, but which are totally different and incompatible :
The Wavelan was a non IEEE compliant hardware that Lucent made before the Wavelan IEEE/Orinoco.
Proxim is selling an Orinoco 802.11a and Orinoco 802.11g which are based on the Atheros chipset. "

I really want to get a g card (I have a Linksys g router) and use it under Windoze until its supported in Linux. I'd buy a cisco card but they don't make g cards yet.

Question: Anybody got those Proxim Orinocos working? What about proxim a/b/g combos? I'm predicting that as soon as non-broadcom chipsets start arriving, we'll see G Linux support as well, so I want to get a G card now and wait for drivers later. What g card do you guys think is most likely to be supported in the future?


TIA!

I have yet to find (and I'm mostly following Jean here, he's a badass), that there aren't any drivers for any of the g offering cards, most of which are Broadcom chipsets and broadcom is a little... friggin' evil. Same with combo cards. You can hold out for a bit as Proxim and Atheros are both more forthcoming, as is Cisco...

The orinoco tale is a sad one, Lucent was a spin-off of Bell Labs, then the little wireless networking division got spun off into Orinoco and then finally got gobbled up by Proxim, in that order... so a Proxim Silver 802.11b card is the same chipset as an old Lucent Wavelan Silver, at least for the time being...

Gotta remember though, unlike Lucent and Cisco, Proxim resells other people's gear, and ultimately its the chipset manufacturer, not the end reseller that gets to call the driver shots... Dlink is almost apologetic in its responses to Linux uses that have been shafted with TI chipset cards which TI refuses to release specs upon (acx100 debacle).

Although, I haven't really gone whole hog nose to ground searching in the past few weeks, but as soon as you see some g drivers on the street, please drop me a line.

Cheers,

Finegan

Well, linux users get screwed, yet again.

Still I found this:

Question
· Are Linux drivers available for any draft-802.11g clients?

Answer

None that we know of as of right now (April 2003). Intersil is said to be working on both Linux and MacOS drivers for products based on their PRISM chipsets, but with no firm release dates.

Work has also been done on Linux support by Atheros, but also with no firm plans for release.

[...]
on smallnetbuilder.com

Sounds like if I get a g card that's based on Atheros (which is what the new Proxim orinoco a/b/g combo is) i should be ok, right? Use it in Win and once the linux drivers come out, go back to linux. what do you think of that strategy?

see http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...644#post411644