[NTLUG:Discuss] RE: Wireless Home Network

[Kevin Hulse]

--- Courtney Grimland <courtney at grimland.net> wrote:
> Hanna, Mark wrote:

I've had good luck with the Dlink Atheros card
(DWL-G650). The Linux module build wasn't too
problematic and the card has a pretty good antenna. It
worked well on a wifi LAN that had given me no end of
fits.

However, it is not a bargain bin card.

> 
> >Some wireless NIC's drivers are considerable easier
> the others to compile and use under Linux.  I've
> used only PCMCIA cards for my laptops at home, but I
> suspect desktop/server cards are about the same. 
> The driver all comes down to the chipset used in the
> NIC... typically either Orinoco, prism or tulip. 
> Some PCMCIA NICs also require a "firmware" file that
> should come on the install CD... even though it is a
> Windows file, Linux still needs it in some cases.
> >
> 
> I bought a D-Link DWL-650 PCMCIA card at Fry's
> because it was dirt 
> cheap.  It's based on the ACX-100 chipset (Texas
> Instruments, I 
> believe).  It's apparently not supported well, but
> there is this 
> sourceforge site:
> 
> http://acx100.sourceforge.net/
> 
> It does require the firmware file, which can be
> automatically wget'ed 
> during the 'configure' or 'make' process (I forget
> which).  I didn't 
> spend a lot of time on it, but I wasn't able to get
> the driver to 
> compile.  I've also read that it works reasonably
> well with the 
> linux-wlan-ng drivers, but I havent' tried that yet.
> 
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