Proxim Orininoco Gold (Model 8470-FC) worked for me. On 1/19/07, Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex at milivojevic.org> wrote:> > Hi, > > I'll need to buy a new wireless card. I need a recommendation for > PCMCIA wireless card that simply works with CentOS out of the box. > > By "works out of the box", I mean that it doesn't need ndis wrapper > (or whatever it is called), kernel hacks, or whatever. > > Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070119/9495ff2a/attachment.html>
Hi, I'll need to buy a new wireless card. I need a recommendation for PCMCIA wireless card that simply works with CentOS out of the box. By "works out of the box", I mean that it doesn't need ndis wrapper (or whatever it is called), kernel hacks, or whatever. Thanks
Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:> Hi, > > I'll need to buy a new wireless card. I need a recommendation for > PCMCIA wireless card that simply works with CentOS out of the box. > > By "works out of the box", I mean that it doesn't need ndis wrapper > (or whatever it is called), kernel hacks, or whatever. > > Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >there are a lot of resources out there regarding general linux compatibility with wireless cards, however alot of outdated. You can still find some very useful information. The problem ends up being using any sort of encryption other than WEP with newer cards that support WPA, WPA2, etc... I have successfully used a Zyxel G-102v2 802.11g card with different distros including Centos 4.x on an unencrypted network or with WEP, but when I try to get WPA working I run into a wall because the windows drivers don't work with ndiswrapper. good luck, cameron
Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:> Hi, > > I'll need to buy a new wireless card. I need a recommendation for > PCMCIA wireless card that simply works with CentOS out of the box. > > By "works out of the box", I mean that it doesn't need ndis wrapper (or > whatever it is called), kernel hacks, or whatever.I'm using this USB device on Linux as we speak http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Belkin-Wireless-G-USB-Network-Adapter-F5D7050/sem/rpsm/oid/118278/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do Belkin Wireless G USB Network Adapter (F5D7050) caveat - I'm using it on Ubuntu 6.10 but have every reason to believe it will work on any old 2.6 kernel. -Mark -- Mark Belanger LTX Corporation
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 01:38:20PM -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:> Hi, > > I'll need to buy a new wireless card. I need a recommendation for > PCMCIA wireless card that simply works with CentOS out of the box. > > By "works out of the box", I mean that it doesn't need ndis wrapper > (or whatever it is called), kernel hacks, or whatever.Been using cards (and notebooks) based on Intel IPW 2200 family with great success here. []s - -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFsSmSpdyWzQ5b5ckRAlDPAKCwku1duNadh/LxvkOvXSt8uDzBXQCgiAKJ yM+EdN3MXM3Y3P0U0a9UcV4=9ZX5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Charles Whitby wrote:> Proxim Orininoco Gold (Model 8470-FC) worked for me.Old WaveLan/Orinicco Silver (prism2 chipset) work. I suspect no current 11g cards work. Some prism54 cards work with standard 2.6 kernels, but it is eceedling difficult to tell before you buy whether you have a supported chipset; vendors tend to change chipset without changing more than the board revision number, and later prism54 cards do not work. Ones I know that work have a separate firmware file on the CD.> > On 1/19/07, Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex at milivojevic.org> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'll need to buy a new wireless card. I need a recommendation for >> PCMCIA wireless card that simply works with CentOS out of the box. >> >> By "works out of the box", I mean that it doesn't need ndis wrapper >> (or whatever it is called), kernel hacks, or whatever.If you are prepared to despoil your CentOS box with a Fedora kernel, your prospects are better. If you decide you are prepared to add a native driver, then most Atheros-based cards should work, with the madwifi driver which "just builds." The main problem from some vendors' POV is that some of the madwifi driver in binary-only. US Law. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list
Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:> Hi, > > I'll need to buy a new wireless card. I need a recommendation for > PCMCIA wireless card that simply works with CentOS out of the box. > > By "works out of the box", I mean that it doesn't need ndis wrapper (or > whatever it is called), kernel hacks, or whatever.http://www.answers.com/topic/comparison-of-open-source-wireless-drivers http://seattlewireless.net/HardwareComparison http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Open_Source_Wireless_Drivers -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list