Support of PCI wireless cards.

[Robert Cahn]

The discussion of wireless seems to be for PCMCIA cards.  What is the status
of the support for PCI cards?  I have an inconveniently located desktop.

/Bob

Robert Cahn
Gipsy Trail Club
Carmel, NY 10512
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rcahn at ieee.org
----- Original Message ----- 
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:20:52 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Satish Balay <balay at fastmail.fm>
> Subject: Re: wireless expectations FC3T2
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> On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
> > I guess there is always a choice.. if I want to eat the cost.  What
card[s]
> > have the best support?  Where I could just expect it to work like my
older
> > pcmcia (non-wireless netgear) cards do?
>
> Lets look at it the other way. The current rawhide kernel has the
> following kernel moules: (If you can find the matching cards for any
> of these drivers. )
>
> [balay at localhost ~]$ ls
/lib/modules/2.6.8-1.541/kernel/drivers/net/wireless
> airo_cs.ko   atmel.ko      netwave_cs.ko  orinoco_pci.ko  prism54
wl3501_cs.ko
> airo.ko      atmel_pci.ko  orinoco_cs.ko  orinoco_plx.ko  wavelan_cs.ko
> atmel_cs.ko  hermes.ko     orinoco.ko     orinoco_tmd.ko  wavelan.ko
>
> The easy ones would be prism54 (and the good old orinoco ones which
> aren't for sale anymore)
>
> Satish
>
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