[NTLUG:Discuss] WiFi and Linux

[David A Venable]

On 21 May 2003, MadHat wrote:

> 
> I have never had issues with Linksys or Orinoco cards.  I have been
> using them for a couple of years now.  I have a Compaq HNW-100 I use for
> sniffing and seems to work ok (still Prism2 chipset).  I have not had
> the problems you describe.  Part of the issue may not be the PCMCIA
> card, but the PCMCIA bridge drivers.
> 
> 
The same problem has exibited itself with both the orinoco_cs kernel 
module and linux-wlan-ng. I've used Debian, Redhat, SuSe, and Gentoo on 
this laptop and have yet to find the right mix of module, pcmcia-cs 
version and kernel. Using linux-wlan-ng, I can get a little more data 
through the card than orinoco_cs. The posts that I've read describing the 
same problem that I've had have workarounds like dumbing the wireless 
network down to 2Mbs and lowering the MTU to PPP settings (both of which 
are not acceptable to do file transfers).

I've resinged myself to waiting until I can plug the 100Mbs ethernet cable 
into the laptop and re-configuring the laptop's network settings before 
doing any transfers.

Dave