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Pointless ideology?- ndiswrapperPointless ideology?- ndiswrapperPosted Sep 2, 2004 14:24 UTC (Thu) by jva (guest, #7172)Parent article: Pointless ideology?
As much as I'd prefer to use hardware with open-source drivers, it's sometimes hard to avoid binary-only drivers. When I investigated 802.11 b/g wireless cards about 2 months ago, I couldn't seem to find more than 1 or 2 802.11 b/g cards supported by Linux. (Perhaps I didn't look in enough places.)
By using ndiswrapper (http://ndiswrapper.sf.net), I could buy a $50 wireless card from Dell, and use ndiswrapper to load the provided Windows driver. This was a practical solution that greatly increased the number of choices I had for wireless networking while still using Linux.
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Pointless ideology?- ndiswrapper Posted Sep 2, 2004 17:11 UTC (Thu) by AJWM (subscriber, #15888) [Link] When I investigated 802.11 b/g wireless cards about 2 months ago, I couldn't seem to find more than 1 or 2 802.11 b/g cards supported by Linux.How many do you need?
Pointless ideology?- prism54 for 802.11g Posted Sep 2, 2004 17:43 UTC (Thu) by kimoto (subscriber, #5244) [Link] Many 802.11g cards are (allegedly) supported by the prism54 driver, in the stock kernel since 2.4.28-pre1. You have to tolerate a binary firmware blob, though. The web list of supported hardware seems to be unavailable right now, but perhaps you can search for the right chipset(s) at linux-wlan-ng. (I use the Netgear WG511 cardbus adapter.)
Pointless ideology?- prism54 for 802.11g Posted Sep 2, 2004 17:45 UTC (Thu) by kimoto (subscriber, #5244) [Link] ... and in 2.6 since 2.6.5.
Pointless ideology?- prism54 for 802.11g Posted Sep 9, 2004 10:40 UTC (Thu) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link] Just a word to anyone thinking of buying a card supported by prism54: if the card you are looking at has the SMC 2802W chipset, make sure it is not the 'v2' revision; the 2802Wv2 is not compatible with the prism54 driver. I only found this out after buying the card. Fortunatly, I was able to use the Windows drivers with Ndiswrapper.
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