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802.11g, usb, and the wonderful yoper

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PhoenixMDM

Piano Man
Joined
Aug 21, 2001
Location
Candia, NH
I'm having trouble hunting down 802.11g adapters that are linux-compatible, and having even more trouble finding a USB one. I'm going to be using it for a tiny computer project, so I'd like to avoid PCI, as there's only 1 slot and I'd rather leave it open just in case. G isn't a must, but it just seems stupid to not go for it.

Any suggestions? Tiny PCI cards are still up for consideration too....
 
No experience with them myself, but from what I have heard, USB adapters can be a real PITA. Is there a real reason that you can think of to leave the PCI slot open? Because it would be so much easier to use a PCI card or a PCMCIA adapter/card....
 
the acx100/111 project is working on USB drivers, and the acx111 cards can do g but I'm not sure how good full speed g support is and AFIK the usb drivers don't work yet:p
So no help but some hope lol

Be sure to post on a lot of linux only forums too tough.
 
Eh, I've done plenty of messing around with my DWL-120+ using both some sourceforge drivers (mighta been acx100/111, can't remember) and ndiswrapper, absolutely no luck with either.

Ended up ordering a pci g card from newegg, prism2 chipset so linux should love it. Hey, in the future I can always switch to usb if linux gets better support, but i wasn't planning on using the pci slot in the near future so why not use it now?
 
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