No G for Linux

[Christopher A. Bier]

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On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 23:19, Steven Elling wrote:
>I've jumped on the WiFi waggon a few months ago and I would suggest
avoiding 
> Linksys.
- From my research, they are the easiest to get working.

> I've got the Linksys WPC11 ver.3 PCMCIA card and befw11s4 ver.3 AP. 
The 
> PCMCIA card stops communicating with the AP for no reason and after an
> indeterminate time.  I have to restart the wlan service or remove and 
> reinsert the card to get it to work again.
I also have a WPC11 and BEFW11S4.  I have not had the connection
dropping
problem.  Are you using the latest version of linux-wlan?
The only thing I haven't gotten working, so far, is 64 or 128 bit WEP,
but
I haven't tried very hard, yet.

> I did a search on Google for a solution but all I could find is a
bunch of 
> other people having the same problem but no solution.  From what I can
tell 
> from the posts, Linksys' own WPC11 ver.3 PCMCIA card won't work
reliably 
> with their own APs.  The card looks to work fine with other
manufacturers 
> APs though.  You would think a manufacturer would do a little quality 
> control especially with their own products but it doesn't look like
it.
Check the linux-wlan group.

> I used to be a fan of Linksys because their cards are cheap (low cost
wise) 
> but with the problems I've had with the WPC11 PCMCIA and LNE100TX
cards I 
> now just think their products are plain cheap.
I have yet to have a problem with any i've bought.

Chris
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