[NTLUG:Discuss] WiFi and Linux

[MadHat]

On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 14:47, David A Venable wrote:
> 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.

What notebook?  It sounds like it isn't the wireless drivers, but the
bridge or something else.  I have used 4 different notebooks with all 3
cards and had no issues like you mention, including on iPAQ handheld
devices.

> 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.

much faster anyway ;)

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