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| Newer page: | version 12 | Last edited on Friday, June 17, 2005 12:35:30 pm | by IanMcDonald | Revert |
| Older page: | version 10 | Last edited on Wednesday, February 2, 2005 9:38:27 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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!! 802.11b Chipsets
* PrismWirelessChipset by Intersil
* HermesWirelessChipset by Agere
+* Intel IPW2100
!! 802.11g Chipsets (Often these support both b and g)
* [PrismGTWirelessChipset] by Intersil
+* Intel IPW2200
* Atheros chipset
!! 802.11a Chipsets (Often these support a, b and g)
Please fill in here
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+!! Unsupported cards
+There are a number of cards which are not supported directly. The most notable of these is the Broadcom chip series. These however can, in many cases, be supported by using Windows drivers with a project called [ndiswrapper|http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net]. Basically you load the Windows driver through another layer which provides Linux compatiability for NDIS drivers which are the most popular kind.
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+One thing I have found with ndiswrapper is that for Broadcom support I have not had success getting it working on versions greater than 0.12. The mailing list discussions bear this out as well with lots of problems with releases >1.0 -- IanMcDonald
!! Which Chipset should I use?
An excellent question, it depends on what you want to do.
