a/b/g/n Atheros PCMCIA card

SentralOrigin · 07-04-2007, 11:13 AM

Is there such thing as a PCMCIA card with an Atheros chipset that supports all a/b/g/n forms of wireless? I had a Linksys WPC55AG and it worked fine but it doesn't work anymore so I'm just looking for a better card. Or something close to it of good quality.

Brian1 · 07-04-2007, 05:48 PM

Look through the HCL section here at the top or to the right. I checked a few of the know cards that can be locally here. A Netgear WAG511 (a/g/b) uses the Atheros Chipset. The Linksys 300n may work looks like the eurpeon version is Atheros where the US version is Broadcom which will more than likely work with ndiswrapper. It is b/g/n. Haven't seen any a/b/g/n pcmcia cards yet but would say they exist. One can check on docs for the cards and also download the driver and pull it apart to see what it may be as.

Brian

SentralOrigin · 07-05-2007, 08:59 AM

So how do I know which PCMCIA card is the "best"? I can only tell from other users' ratings? PCL network cards is a long list to scroll through...and they don't even tell you which are the PCMCIA cards so I have to look up every single model

Brian1 · 07-05-2007, 04:09 PM

Maybe do a search for best pcmcia wireless card and see what post pop up.

Brian

Quakeboy02 · 07-05-2007, 04:12 PM

I doubt that anyone can actually tell you which one is the "best". As far as I'm concerned, the one that I'm able to install and not be bothered with after the install is close enough to best that it doesn't matter.

Just find one that works and don't worry about the rest. If there's an Atheros based card that works it'll probably be less hassle than the rest. Will it be the "best"? Don't know. Don't care.

SentralOrigin · 07-05-2007, 10:11 PM

Gahhh why won't my WPC55AG work anymore with the newest vanilla kernel!

Brian1 · 07-06-2007, 04:16 PM

You did recompile the madwifi modules against the new kernel source?
Was there any errors?
Does the needed modules load?

Brian

SentralOrigin · 07-10-2007, 11:28 AM

Yes, everything loads fine. I have posted my issue in Gentoo forums a couple weeks ago, but it is still not solved and maybe someone here knows. I just can't see ath0. I can see lo, eth0 (for my CAT5 line which internet DOES work, but not wireless) and sit0 which I have no idea what it is. I can't see ath0 and it says device not found when I try to start net.ath0 which is symbolically linked to /etc/init.d/net.lo

Quakeboy02 · 07-10-2007, 11:35 AM

modprobe ath_pci
ifconfig ath0 up

SentralOrigin · 07-10-2007, 11:58 AM

Okay, never mind, I have found the solution.

In my vanilla kernel, I forgot module autoloading so I had to rebuild the kernel against that option, then recompile madwifi-ng and reboot and now ath0 is seen and it works.