[ILUG] Wireless Card - Any experiences?

[John Coleman]

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 22:27:47 +0000, Conall O'Brien
<conall+ilug at conall.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 12:36:59PM GMT, John Coleman
> <john.coleman at gmail.com> incoherently babbled:
> 
> > Failing that, does anyone have a source where I can definately get PCI
> > and PCMCIA Prism54-compatible cards? AFAIK the Orinocco cards have
> > also changed chipset (possibly to Atheros?).
> > Preferably somewhere to whom I (my department) can send a purchase order to :)
> 
> 
> Eh, Komplett:
> 
> PCI - SMC2802W - http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=117794&cks=PRL
> 
> PCMCIA - 3Com OfficeConnect 11g -
> http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=118980&cks=PRL
> 
> Both are listed in the Supported Card List on Prism54.org. I have no
> experience with the SMC PCI card, but the 3Com PCMCIA card definitely
> works under Linux. It's a simple, if you follow prism54.org's
> instructions...
> 
> I've always found the Prism54.org driver very good. They even have Nitro
> mode implemented, but WPA is still a work in progress iirc...
> 
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Unless that's a v1 SMC2802W (PCI), it's got the Frisbee chipset in it.

http://users.linpro.no/janl/hardware/wifi.html
At the bottom of this page it mentions that the current version (V2.0) of 
both the PCI and PCMCIA cards are using the Frisbee chipset.

As for the 3Com, I'll look into it, if the version on Komplett is
definately Duette, i'll pick it up, thanks :)
-- 
John Coleman
Technical Officer
NUIG, Computer Society