Pointless ideology?- prism54 for 802.11g [LWN.net]

Pointless ideology?- prism54 for 802.11g

Posted Sep 2, 2004 17:43 UTC (Thu) by kimoto (subscriber, #5244)
In reply to: Pointless ideology?- ndiswrapper by jva
Parent article: Pointless ideology?

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.)

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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.