wireless

Martín Marqués martin at bugs.unl.edu.ar
Tue Oct 5 14:24:40 UTC 2004


El Mar 05 Oct 2004 10:46, Scot L. Harris escribió:
> On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 09:30, Martín Marqués wrote:
> >
> > I would prefer to use the Atheros driver for 3 good reasons:
> >
> > 1) It's open source
> > 2) It comes for FC1 and FC2 as part of atrpms (http://atrpms.net) so you
> > can download with apt or yum.
> > 3) It works! :-D
> >
> > Check http://atrpms.net/dist/fc2/madwifi/
>
> And if you have a wireless card based on the Atheros chip set then I
> would agree.  However the OP stated his card was based on the prism chip
> set and supported 802.11g protocol.
>
> Are you saying that the Atheros driver supports the prism chip set also?

I'm not that sure, but I have a DWL-G650 working with the atheros driver. On 
the other hand, if he need the prism driver:

[root at www root]# apt-cache search prism
kernel-module-prism2 - Linux Prism II Wireless 802.11b drivers
kernel-module-prism2 - Linux Prism II Wireless 802.11b drivers
kernel-module-prism2 - Linux Prism II Wireless 802.11b drivers
kernel-module-prism54 - Linux driver for the 802.11g Prism GT / Prism Duette / 
Prism Indigo Chipsets.
kernel-module-prism54 - Linux driver for the 802.11g Prism GT / Prism Duette / 
Prism Indigo Chipsets.
kernel-module-prism54 - Linux driver for the 802.11g Prism GT / Prism Duette / 
Prism Indigo Chipsets.
kernel-module-prism54 - Linux driver for the 802.11g Prism GT / Prism Duette / 
Prism Indigo Chipsets.
kernel-smp-module-prism2 - Linux Prism II Wireless 802.11b drivers
kernel-smp-module-prism2 - Linux Prism II Wireless 802.11b drivers
kernel-smp-module-prism2 - Linux Prism II Wireless 802.11b drivers
kernel-smp-module-prism54 - Linux SMP driver for the 802.11g Prism GT / Prism 
Duette / Prism Indigo Chipsets.
kernel-smp-module-prism54 - Linux SMP driver for the 802.11g Prism GT / Prism 
Duette / Prism Indigo Chipsets.
kernel-smp-module-prism54 - Linux SMP driver for the 802.11g Prism GT / Prism 
Duette / Prism Indigo Chipsets.
kernel-smp-module-prism54 - Linux SMP driver for the 802.11g Prism GT / Prism 
Duette / Prism Indigo Chipsets.
prism2-utils - Prism II Wireless 802.11b utilities
prismstumbler - Wireless LAN (WLAN) accesspoint discovery tool



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