[KLUG Members] aironet 4800

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > I have a wn2k desktop that I want to set up as a dual boot machine with 
> > SUSE 9.3.  As a trial I tired out knoppix 3.4 (from the O' Rielly book) 
> > and knoppix 3.9.   3,4 worked well with the aironet card but 3.9 won't.  
> > It is my understading from doing a google search that the prism2 chipset 
> > in the aironet card is no longer supported in the kernel for later 
> > versions of knoppix.  Will this also be true of SuSE 9.3? 

It is hard to say, the situation is rather complicated: "The
manufacturers of Atheros, RT and Intel chipsets seem Linux friendly,
cooperating as they are. TI on the other hand is not. While the
developers of the acx100 driver are to be applauded, TI should not be
applauded. Atheros has turbo chips which MADWIFI supports. In january
2004 - and still in 2005 - I would say that the best bet is a Atheros
based card, preferably not with the very newest itteration of the
chipset. A lot of laptops seem do have Atheros and Centrino chipsets -
and these should be fine."
http://users.linpro.no/janl/hardware/wifi.html

For instance the Toshiba M35 series ship with a "Atheros 5212" wireless
card that is widely reported as working.  (I just bought an M35, since I
was looking specifically for a non-Centrino laptop - I haven't however
even tried to use the internal wireless yet, so maybe it will 'just
work').

>  well, i don't know for sure but you could always try ndiswrapper. for
example, i have one netgear 
> wg511t card with the atheros chipset that suse 9.3 picks up no problem. i also have a linksys card 
> with a realtek chipset. no flavor of linux, including knoppix would pick it up until just recently. 
> i used ndiswrapper and a net8180.inf windows driver to get it working.