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
Proxim Orininoco Gold (Model 8470-FC) worked for me.
On 1/19/07, Aleksandar Milivojevic alex@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@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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@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.
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On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 04:38:13AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
Charles Whitby wrote:
Proxim Orininoco Gold (Model 8470-FC) worked for me.
Old WaveLan/Orinicco Silver (prism2 chipset) work.
Wavelan/Orinoco Silver are definitively NOT prism2 based cards. Yes, they work nicely, easily and without a issue, but they are not prism2.
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- -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)
Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
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On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 04:38:13AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
Charles Whitby wrote:
Proxim Orininoco Gold (Model 8470-FC) worked for me.
Old WaveLan/Orinicco Silver (prism2 chipset) work.
Wavelan/Orinoco Silver are definitively NOT prism2 based cards. Yes, they work nicely, easily and without a issue, but they are not prism2.
hmm: See the output of modinfo orinoco
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On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 06:02:54AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 04:38:13AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
Charles Whitby wrote:
Proxim Orininoco Gold (Model 8470-FC) worked for me.
Old WaveLan/Orinicco Silver (prism2 chipset) work.
Wavelan/Orinoco Silver are definitively NOT prism2 based cards. Yes, they work nicely, easily and without a issue, but they are not prism2.
hmm: See the output of modinfo orinoco
description: Driver for Lucent Orinoco, Prism II based and similar wireless cards
Yup. I think you are missing that comma there.
Here is more more rationale:
- - If you use the old wavelan driver, it will work on the Orinoco cards, but not work on any prism2 cards - - If you use the old prism2 driver, it will work on prism2 cards (Samsung etc), but will not work on Orinoco cards.
Not that I'm complaining. I personally think Orinoco cards are MUCH better than Prism2 ones.
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- -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)
Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
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On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 06:02:54AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 04:38:13AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
Charles Whitby wrote:
Proxim Orininoco Gold (Model 8470-FC) worked for me.
Old WaveLan/Orinicco Silver (prism2 chipset) work.
Wavelan/Orinoco Silver are definitively NOT prism2 based cards. Yes, they work nicely, easily and without a issue, but they are not prism2.
hmm: See the output of modinfo orinoco
description: Driver for Lucent Orinoco, Prism II based and similar wireless cards
Yup. I think you are missing that comma there.
Nope. Google couldn't show me any difference. Some of the references spoke of Hermes, but the "Hermes" driver is just a bunch of access routines.
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@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
Quoting Cameron Showalter cameron@gwschool.com:
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.
That's exactly why I'm asking for recommendations. I'll need to buy the thing, stick it in laptop, and it has to work right away. WAP would be high on the list of features. However WEP-only might be usable too. If it doesn't work out of the box, I won't be able to browse the net to search for solution (or additional software). Because my wireless card doesn't work. By the time I'll be able to connect laptop to some wire, I won't really need the card anymore (well, I'll need it someday in the future again, but what I really need it for is this next trip I'll be making).
If there's nothing like this for CentOS, Fedora Core is an option too.
Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
Quoting Cameron Showalter cameron@gwschool.com:
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.
That's exactly why I'm asking for recommendations. I'll need to buy the thing, stick it in laptop, and it has to work right away. WAP would be high on the list of features. However WEP-only might be usable too. If it doesn't work out of the box, I won't be able to browse the net to search for solution (or additional software). Because my wireless card doesn't work. By the time I'll be able to connect laptop to some wire, I won't really need the card anymore (well, I'll need it someday in the future again, but what I really need it for is this next trip I'll be making).
If there's nothing like this for CentOS, Fedora Core is an option too.
OpenSUSE 10.0? OpenSUSE 10.2? These support the Atheros-based card ootb in my Acer Aspire.
Your prospects are far better with FC{5,6} than with CentOS: in your position I'd probably not consider CentOS for very long.
Note: FC6 is a complete basket case on my Del Optiplex GX 270 desktop. It does not handle the Intel graphics at all well. I did have RHEL5 beta, SLES10 and SUSE10 all running on it without great difficulty, but X was a challenge for RHEL5.
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...
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 wrote:
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...
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.
I looked at some Belkin PC cards; as I recall they use a TI chipset. No go.
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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)
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
John Summerfield wrote:
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
Thanks for the links.
So I guess Cisco or some (older) prism54 based card are my best bets? I see there's airo device driver for Cisco cards included with CentOS. Will it work with any Cisco card?
Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
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
Thanks for the links.
So I guess Cisco or some (older) prism54 based card are my best bets? I
_I_ would go for Atheros and either download the source (it's small) and build (doesn't take long) the driver, or download an rpm (I would expect to find one at rpmforge).
Whatever you do, you need some time for testing before you embark on your adventures.
btw The orinoco cards can use an external antenna.
These people can probably sell you all you want: http://www.techtopia.com.au/index.php Note, they're located in Perth, Western Australia, prices are in Australian Dollars. They can also (I think) advise on Linux compatibility, and compatibility with your laptop if you prefer internal wireless.
I've just changed my mind, if 11b is enough I'd go with their Orinoco card and pigtail. The pigtail adapts you the connector on the card to the connector on your antenna cable. They can sell you the lot.
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