At 1153696655 past the epoch, Faheem Mitha wrote: > I've been trying to find locally a wireless network card > that works with Linux to install on my host's laptop. The > cards available at the local retail outlets seem to only > work with proprietary drivers, and I don't want to use > proprietary drivers for such a basic thing.
I have used two wireless cards in my laptop. 1. A Linksys WPC11 PC-card, supporting 10Mb/s (802.11b). This turned out to be a 'v.4' although there was no indication of this on the packaging or in the description provided by the online vendor. The 'v.4' means it has a rtl8180 chipset and can be used with the fully GPL driver available from <http://rtl8180-sa2400.sourceforge.net/>. I can't remember what chipset the pre-v4 cards had, but I believe it was one which was supported by an open source driver too (possibly the prism or prism2). 2. An intel pro-wireless 802.11g mini-pci card. This has a GPL driver <http://ipw2200.sf.net/> which is included in the current mainline kernels (I can't remember when it was actually added). There's a debian package for this driver. Note that this driver is open source *BUT* you need non-free binary firmware to actually use the card. > The important thing is that I should be able to pick it up > locally. I think both of these are relatively common cards but I have no idea what kind of hardware stores you have around there. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
