[ale] PCMCIA-based WiFi cards?

[Joseph A Knapka]

Fulton Green wrote:
> 
> I know someone posted something about a US Robotics wireless PCMCIA card
> here recently. I'm assuming that works with Linux, but that's not the
> question ... rather, if you take a look at
> 
> http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS
> 
> and skip to the "wireless" cards section, then to the Orinoco-based cards,
> in the middle of that section there is a comment about PrismII-based cards,
> presumably listed below the comment, that mentions they have "limited
> functionality". How so?
> 
> And, naturally, your recommends for PCMCIA cards welcome as well. I'm hoping
> to use one up at KSU this weekend or next. ;-)

I have a PrismII-based wireless NIC (Netgear), which seems to
work just fine using either the wvlan_cs module or the
orinoco stuff. cardmgr finds it and just does the right thing.
The only challenge was figuring out how to set the ESSID
when using the Orinoco driver; that required an upgrade to
the Gentoo pcmcia-cs package, and a change to
/etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts.

-- 
 "I'd rather chew my leg off than maintain Java code, which
 sucks, 'cause I have a lot of Java code to maintain and the
 leg surgery is starting to get expensive." - J. Knapka

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