I need your reference for a WLAN PCMCIA card

nicon · 12-04-2005, 10:19 AM

Hi my friends,
I search a ongoing PCMCIA WLAN card which supports WEP, WPA and WPA-II, have a good coverage and works fine with Linux. Personally I use slack 10.1 with an IBM R50e(1834-8SG). Hope anyone of you can give me some reference, hints or advise.
-Thanks for all answers

nicon · 12-04-2005, 11:28 PM

@Moderators
if the thread is wrong placed, then please move him to the proper section.
-thx

mjjzf · 12-05-2005, 04:39 AM

The obvious suggestion would be for you to look at the LQ Hardware Compatibility List.
I have used a Philips wireless card - it is based on an Atheros chipset, using the Madwifi driver. It works great with any kernel. It is even supported in FreeBSD, if you decide to change the flavor at some point.

nicon · 12-05-2005, 10:24 AM

I'am thankful for your hint. I didn't know HCL until now but it's very useful and i actually find a device which I want to buy.

_thanks

halo14 · 12-05-2005, 03:13 PM

I agree with the Atheros-based cards. They work well, and most of the newer releases are coming including the madwifi drivers. Slackware still does not, but it's easy to install. I have a Linksys WPC55AG (a,b,g bands) which is atheros. Almost ani triple-band card you buy will likely be atheros.

A lot of the other wireless cards use the realtek chipsets. I also have a D-Link 650 rev.M which uses the rtl8180 driver. I have only used it on Gentoo and Gentoo has the rtl81880 driver in portage, it was a breeze to install.

Some other cards like the older Linksys WPC11 v.3 use the linux-wlan-ng drivers...but you're not really likely to find a card that uses them now.. unless it used in ebay or something..

Really, Linux wireless support is coming along quite nicely.. and pretty much anything except broadcom chipsets are supported with native drivers... and broadcom can be used with NDIS wrapper... though I have no experience with that.

Poetics · 12-05-2005, 07:26 PM

No problems with a Proxim Orinoco Wireless G card -- Atheros chipset, but smooth sailing all 'round.

Easy easy setup.

nicon · 12-09-2005, 04:44 AM

ok I thank you guys, it was very important to me to hear that the 'g' cards work as well.
I think I'll buy some thing like the Proxim Combo Gold or a Cisco Aironet 350, we'll see ^^.

_thanks