[Lilux-help] Wireless NIC

[Pascal Steichen]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 11:25:09AM +0100, Alain Knaff wrote:
> begin  Friday 05 March 2004 11:18, Eric Dondelinger quote:
> > > The access point is a KTI KW-111.
> >
> > Sounds like Circuit? :-)
> 
> Yes, indeed ;-)
> 
> > Do you know which chipset KTI uses in their
> > PCMCIA or PCI cards?
> 
> In the AP, they use Atmel. No idea what they use in their cards.
> 
> > They seemed interesting, the vendor told me they
> > work on Linux...
> 
> The AP can be configured in Linux using an SNMP client (no Web
> interface though :-( )
> 
> [...]
> > > Anybody has any ideas?
> >
> > Yes, exchange the card for something better supported, if you still
> > have that option (I don't).
> 
> I do (the card is just borrowed). However, the other card I tried
> didn't work any better (a Level One Realtek 8180):
> 
>  - Worked fine with old SuSE (8.2, if I remember correctly)
>  - No longer works with 9.0 (can not enable card, crashes the kernel
>  frequently) 
> 
> I also had once a card from BenQ: worked fine softwarewise, but
> overheated after a longer period of use (> 1h30), so I had to exchange
> it.

Oh yes, seem to be a BenQ specific problem, got one also, very hot indeed !!

> 
> Alain
> 
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