Wireless recommendations?

[Steve Scrimpshire]

I'm looking to get a PCMCIA/Cardbus wireless card for my laptop. What I would like is info on what is the best? Preferably 802.11g. If possible, can you also post the output of cardctl ident for yours? Also, can you do a transfer speed test with ttcp? I would prefer a card that supports scanning. Also, please let me know how many channels the card has available and exactly what speeds it supports. Thanks.

 

Edit: I searched here and only found this:

http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=10048&hl=

which doesn't really have much info.

Edited June 27, 2004 by Steve Scrimpshire

[Steve Scrimpshire]

No ideas?

[Gowator]

Its difficult to recommend a g card becuase they all take a lot of hacking/work unless you use driverloader .... and if you wanna use driverloader then I guess go with their recommendations ?

[Guest anon]

I recently bought a w/router and card for my wife's laptop. It is 802.11g

http://www.dlink.co.uk/airplus_extreme_g.htm

I don't know how to test the speed as the wife runs windoze.

[kmc77]

I've had good experience with the Dlink cards and routers also.

 

Their tech. support actually kept me on the line, when I said I was running Mandrake Linux :D . he even helped me fix my problem in Linux. Although It was just a router setting problem and we fixed it thru the browser. I still give 'em credit for not telling me that I was out of luck because I was using Linux

Edited June 29, 2004 by kmc77

[hilbert]

I bought a CNet CNWLC 811 PCMCIA card (11Mbps max) and plug into the Mandrake 10. After pcmcia_cs was installed, the card was detected in boot but failed to assign IP address. After the installation of package atmel-firmware (commercial package) and reboot, iwlist eth1 scan worked, ifconfig eth1 192.168.2.3 worked, everything worked well like magic!

Edited August 8, 2004 by hilbert

[Havin_it]

Belkin 54G Wireless Notebook Network Card.

Chip: Broadcom bcm94306

Driver: off the accompanying Win CD (with ndiswrapper 0.9)

Access status: I'll tell you as soon as I've been to a hotspot...

Work required: not minor, but full howto coming...

Price: just under 30 squid UK incl. shipping from Ebuyers

 

Cheapest I could find, instant PnP in Win (not that you'd care about that now...), seems to work well with ndiswrapper given the right groundwork and technique.

 

cardctl ident output:

 

Socket 0:

product info: "Broadcom", "802.11g CardBus", "4.5"

manfid: 0x02d0, 0x0417

function: 6 (network)

 

Not sure what the pricetag will be in US of course...

 

EDIT: Hotspot automatically detected, nothing more to do. That be good in my book.

Edited August 13, 2004 by Havin_it

[Darkelve]

I've had good experience with the Dlink cards and routers also.

 

Their tech. support actually kept me on the line, when I said I was running Mandrake Linux :D .  he even helped me fix my problem in Linux.  Although It was just a router setting problem and we fixed it thru the browser.  I still give 'em credit for not telling me that I was out of luck because I was using Linux

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Chances are he was using (Mandrake) Linux himself...

 

 

Anyhow, using Linux himself or not, it still makes sense from a marketing&sales point that he helped you...

Edited August 13, 2004 by Darkelve