Re: Support for 802.11 cards?

From: Joe deBlaquiere (jadb@redhat.com)
Date: Sun Jan 28 2001 - 19:13:14 EST

There is a rather informative discussion of wireless support at :

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.html

Though possibly a little out of date, the author of this obviously did
their research. Kudos! 

--
Joe

Michael H. Warfield wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 05:07:33PM -0500, John Jasen wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Mike Pontillo wrote:
> 
> 
>>> 	I was wondering what 802.11 PCI cards anyone knows of that run
>>> under Linux-2.4. (or 2.2 for that matter)
>> 
> 
>> I _think_ a good many of the 802.11 wireless ISA and PCI cards are just
>> bus to PCMCIA adapters, so it would be a question of whether or not the
>> PCMCIA card is supported and if the bridge is supported.
> 
> 
> 	Last I knew (straight from the Lucent people), the ISA bridge
> card worked fine and the PCI card did NOT work at all.  I've since
> confirmed that, first hand, myself (I currently have the ISA bridge in
> operation) on the 2.2 kernels.  The ISA bridge also works on the 2.4
> kernels but I have not retested the PCI bridge on 2.4.  The Lucent
> people claim that the Linux pcmcia people are aware of the problem.
> 
> 	Mike

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