[ale] Modern-Day Linux Wireless

[Jeff Hubbs]

The reason I asked was that my AMD64 laptop has an internal Broadcom
BCM94306 802.11g and I had thought that I would have to at least
temporarily supplant it with a PCMCIA card to get wireless workign at
all.  

It turns out that there *is* some nascent support for that chip, so 2.6
and AMD64 support is probably at least feasible if not a no-brainer.

- Jeff

On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 19:33, Geoffrey wrote:
> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > So what's a readily-available (i.e., Best Buy) good-drivered 802.11b or
> > g wireless PCMCIA card?
> 
> I picked up a 3com b/g card that has native Linux support 
> (http://www.prism54.org).  I successfully got it talking to a b card, 
> which is a no-name prism card as well.
> 
> I picked up another prism54 card at Compusa yesterday for $29 after 
> rebate.  79 before rebate is not bad for a g card and linux drivers. 
> I'm building a box to test it with as I had to upgrade/patch the kernel 
> and build the prism54 drivers.   My 3com card is in my Emperor Linux 
> laptop and the Emperor kernel supports it.
> 
> I'll likely get back to it later tonight, if/when I do, I'll post on my 
> progress.  If I get these two cards talking at 54 I'll be pretty pleased.