Supported 802.11g USB card (was Re: supported 802.11g pcmcia card + WPA support)

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Tue Aug 2 01:18:26 UTC 2005


Alexander Dalloz writes:

> Am Sa, den 30.07.2005 schrieb Sam Varshavchik um 18:03:
> 
>> That reminds me -- I wouldn't mind a pointer to an 802.11g USB card that's 
>> supported in FC3.  By "supported" I mean native kernel support.  I don't 
>> need to know about any proprietary drivers that can be hacked with something 
>> like ndiswrapper.  ndiswrapper with i386 drivers is not going to be much 
>> useful on an x86_64 system.
> 
> Hi Sam,
> 
> in the last days I watched out for something exactly that. I came over
> the ZyDAS1211 chip which is in a handful of 54 MBit USB WLAN sticks.
> There is a Linux kernel driver project at
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/zd1211/
> 
> which looks promising. Some models from different manufacturers listed
> at:
> 
> http://warder.ath.cx:81/projects.php#zd1211
> 
> Today I ordered myself a "Fiberline WL-410U" for about 15 € (~13 US$).
> Can hopefully soon report if you are interested - just do not have an
> x86_64 system.

Well, "2. Driver causes system lockups" does not really inspire a lot of 
confidence.  But, it's a start.




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