wireless cards & Linux

[Curt Tresenriter]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:37:18 +0000
"david" <nux at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 16:00, nocturn wrote:
> > david Wrote: 
> > > Greetings
> > > 
> > > I'm working on a project to roll Linux out across the
> > > NGO/Charity/Voluntary sector and I have 2 offices waiting to
> > > be set up with wireless. They are using Mandrake 10 at the
> > > moment. After having gone through US Robotics cards and D-Link
> > > DWL-122 with absolutely NO luck at all, I'm starting to
> > > wonder... So,
> > > does anyone know if there's currently such a thing as a "works
> > > out of the box" wireless card (PCI or USB) for Linux? 
> > > This would primarily be for Mandrake boxes - however, if
> > > there's a better solution via Ubuntu - I'd be willing to
> > > consider it, but the solution must be utterly reliable and
> > > must also involve no beta OS's.(Mdk 10.2 Beta 2 sees and
> > > correctly identifies the d-link cards but doesn't seem able to
> > > use them - "no wireless extensions".)
> > > 
> > > many thanks
> > > 
> > > David
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > ubuntu-users mailing list
> > > ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > > http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
> > 
> > Basicly, all cards with a prism 54 chipset are supported by the
> > kernel.
> > My SMC 54Mbit card was detected by Ubuntu at install time, so
> > I'm happy.
> > 
> > For other cards, you may require ndiswrapper to load the Windows
> > drivers.
> > 
> 
> Many thanks for that.
> I found this site as a result.
> http://prism54.org/supported_cards.php
> 
> I'll see what can be ordered tomorrow.
> 
> David


Just thought I'd mention that I found a company selling the original
Orinoco gold card on ebay at a good price that has configured out of
the box on at least three Linux distributions so far.

HTH
Curt