Good supported wireless desktop adapter
I just moved from a house that was wired with cat 5 to a house that is not so I am needing a couple of wireless adapters for my desktops. I have not played with any of these in Linux so I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for a well supported adapter? I am running various Fedora flavors. I need 802.11G and probably an external antenna since the firewall and AP are in the basement and the desktops are on the 2nd floor. The cheaper the better as well. TIA, Brad
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I just moved from a house that was wired with cat 5 to a house that is not so I am needing a couple of wireless adapters for my desktops. I have not played with any of these in Linux so I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for a well supported adapter? I am running various Fedora flavors. I need 802.11G and probably an external antenna since the firewall and AP are in the basement and the desktops are on the 2nd floor. The cheaper the better as well.
TIA,
Brad
Newegg had a sale on a b/g router a few days ago. It was $20. I've had good luck with my Linksys WPC11v3 PC card. (The newer models use a different chipset and may or may not work.) Chris - -- I digitally sign my emails. If you see an attachment with .asc, then that means your email client doesn't support PGP digital signatures. http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/documentation/faqs.html#q1.1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC2CB/E5xXU3JS1mQRAttnAKDZ6/a6l0zEGiINjoZMqWkgeCvEFgCfbjxz Kic6m3JigkUoBN9KLDaGHEA= =IjPN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 15:45 -0500, Chris Bier wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Newegg had a sale on a b/g router a few days ago. It was $20.
I've had good luck with my Linksys WPC11v3 PC card. (The newer models use a different chipset and may or may not work.)
Chris
I thought maybe Linksys would be a good bet for supported cards. Thanks for the info. Brad
I've got a D-Link G520 that I bought on a recommendation. I'm using the open source mad-wifi drivers that perform quite well. When I was trying out FC, I had to download the drivers seperately, but they're in a fairly popular repository. I don't recall having that problem with Ubuntu though, so it's possible that FC4 has included them. The antenna is detachable, and currently it works from my basement to our upper floor. Its entirely possible that you might not actually need a new antenna, unless you're planning on using that shitty 2wire router that SBC provides. Justin Dugger On 7/15/05, brad <brad@bradandkim.net> wrote:
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 15:45 -0500, Chris Bier wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Newegg had a sale on a b/g router a few days ago. It was $20.
I've had good luck with my Linksys WPC11v3 PC card. (The newer models use a different chipset and may or may not work.)
Chris
I thought maybe Linksys would be a good bet for supported cards. Thanks for the info.
Brad
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I've got a D-Link G520 that I bought on a recommendation. I'm using the open source mad-wifi drivers that perform quite well. When I was trying out FC, I had to download the drivers seperately, but they're in a fairly popular repository. I don't recall having that problem with Ubuntu though, so it's possible that FC4 has included them. The antenna is detachable, and currently it works from my basement to our upper floor. Its entirely possible that you might not actually need a new antenna, unless you're planning on using that shitty 2wire router that SBC provides.
Justin Dugger
I ended up going with a D-Link DWL-G510. I have it working under ndiswrapper and it seems to be fine. It is syncing fine with the LinkSys AP in the basement. Guess I will get another one of these cards fro my other desktop. Thanks for the suggestion. Brad
I ended up going with a D-Link DWL-G510. I have it working under ndiswrapper and it seems to be fine. It is syncing fine with the LinkSys AP in the basement. Guess I will get another one of these cards fro my other desktop. Thanks for the suggestion.
The ndiswrapper solution is interesting, but if you're curious at all, the madwifi drivers seem to work perfectly well, and support WPA, etc. I would imagine its possible that in the future they could support newer versions of the 802.11 spec, given that you dont need a change in the radio. The madwifi docs suggest that both the g510 and 520 are compatible; D Link suggests that the 520 can get "up to 108 Mbps!!elevens!" and that it can do WPA (slightly more important). Newegg claimed the 510 didnt do WPA (it seems it does) so that's why I wound up paying ten bucks extra for nothing, it seems. Anyways, just a thought that you or anyone else following along might check it out, especially if you're considering AMD64. Justin
Justin wrote:
The ndiswrapper solution is interesting, but if you're curious at all, the madwifi drivers seem to work perfectly well, and support WPA, etc. I would imagine its possible that in the future they could support newer versions of the 802.11 spec, given that you dont need a change in the radio.
The madwifi docs suggest that both the g510 and 520 are compatible; D Link suggests that the 520 can get "up to 108 Mbps!!elevens!" and that it can do WPA (slightly more important). Newegg claimed the 510 didnt do WPA (it seems it does) so that's why I wound up paying ten bucks extra for nothing, it seems. Anyways, just a thought that you or anyone else following along might check it out, especially if you're considering AMD64.
Justin
Yeah, I started encountering drops and lost sync with ndiswrapper so I am trying madwifi now. It detects the card, but I must not be entering my key or something correctly because I am not getting a lease. I used the atrpms RPM for madwifi and iwconfig to enter the key, essid and so forth. One thing that I found I had to enter under ndiswrapper was the freq but I get an error trying to enter that with madwifi using iwconfig. More to play with I guess. Thanks, Brad
Justin Dugger wrote:
The ndiswrapper solution is interesting, but if you're curious at all, the madwifi drivers seem to work perfectly well, and support WPA, etc. I would imagine its possible that in the future they could support newer versions of the 802.11 spec, given that you dont need a change in the radio.
NdisWrapper was a giant step backwards if you're interested in 802.11 analysis or wardriving. NDIS (and NdisWrapper by extension) can't pass raw 802.11 frames up the stack. It converts them to a fake Ethernet frame instead, stripping off all of the 802.11-specific information. If you want to see beacon frames, management frames, or 802.11 frame control information you have to use native Linux (or BSD) drivers.
Gerald Combs wrote:
NdisWrapper was a giant step backwards if you're interested in 802.11 analysis or wardriving. NDIS (and NdisWrapper by extension) can't pass raw 802.11 frames up the stack. It converts them to a fake Ethernet frame instead, stripping off all of the 802.11-specific information. If you want to see beacon frames, management frames, or 802.11 frame control information you have to use native Linux (or BSD) drivers.
Interesting. Well, unfortunately ndiswrapper is all that is working for me right now. I will keep working on madwifi though. Thanks, Brad
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