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This page details peoples notes about setting up WirelessNetworking
. The environments will vary, and some of the notes might be out of date. Don't treat this as a definitive reference!
+This page details peoples notes about setting up a WirelessNetwork
. The environments will vary, and some of the notes might be out of date. Don't treat this as a definitive reference!
See Also WirelessNetworkSecurityNotes
-!!Nevada's Experience in Setting Up WirelessNetworking.
+!! Nevada's Experience in Setting Up a WirelessNetwork
PhilMurray went to [PBTech] and bought two Nokia C110 wireless cards and a Nokia C910 wireless bridge (PCI to PCMCIA bridge) for $500 (A good deal). This is where the problem begins.
The C110 card works fine in Windows, as you'd expect. There's even a binary Linux driver. We have a wireless network connecting two laptops, one of which is kept plugged into a network cable so that the other laptop can have wireless. :)
-HOWEVER, the C910 (PCI adapter card) seems to come in two flavours - a Cirrus Logic chipset (which provides an i82365 PCMCIA bridge, which is exactly what the driver wants), and a PLX PCI9052 chipset, which isn't a 'bridge' at al
- it maps the PCMCIA registers into the PCI range. You need different drivers for this - the Prism2 chipset (which the C110 is tantalisingly similar to, but not quite the same as) is well supported with Linux-WLAN-NG. But not the C110! It has a BinaryDriver, so we can't even get PerryLorier to hax it.
+HOWEVER, the C910 (PCI adapter card) seems to come in two flavours - a Cirrus Logic chipset (which provides an i82365 PCMCIA bridge, which is exactly what the driver wants), and a PLX PCI9052 chipset, which isn't a 'bridge' at all
- it maps the PCMCIA registers into the PCI range. You need different drivers for this - the Prism2 chipset (which the C110 is tantalisingly similar to, but not quite the same as) is well supported with Linux-WLAN-NG. But not the C110! It has a BinaryDriver, so we can't even get PerryLorier to hax it.
Be warned, the Belkin F5D6000Z (the only bridge Ascent sell) is a PLX PCI9052 as well.
The moral of this story? Even if you go to buy a piece of hardware that you are told is LinuxCompatible, check the chipset! It might end up not being so.
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It has been my experience that compiling the Wireless Tools and pcmcia-cs separately from the kernel always yeilds a much nicer solution and seems to simplify/remove issues regarding wireless network support. This was a big issue back when I was using a Pentium Pro 150 as a server because it would take forever to compile a new kernel, and significantly less than forever to just recompile the wireless and pcmcia (but still a long time) .
I also have an Airport Extreme card in my iBook G4 which has worked with every network I've tried it with.
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