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Newer page: version 5 Last edited on Monday, August 15, 2005 2:53:58 pm by SamGardiner Revert
Older page: version 1 Last edited on Wednesday, September 15, 2004 9:09:28 pm by DanielLawson Revert
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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 The environments will vary, and some of the notes might be out of date.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 The environments will vary, and some of the notes might be out of date.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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