-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 my initial reply was a very quick mail written some secs before i had to leave, so some deatils might have been missing... :-) for all the newer prism chipsets, GT Duette Indigo, there are new driver, which you can find on this page: http://prism54.org/ there might be some other info on cards or so, just check it out... then there are atheros cards i got an atheros based card (with a superg capable chipset, say 108mbit). atheros has it's own (+/-) opensource driver, called madwifi. you can check it out at sf.net/projects/madwifi there are no files to download, you gotta checkout the pub-cvs they work with 2.4 and 2.6 as all common drivers do some other common chipsets like broadcom, aren't supported (AFAIK, but am pretty sure it hasnt changed since i bought my equip.). then there are centrino's.... drivers to be released soon... some uncommon stuff which is either old and supported, or new and not supported cos of lack of tech specs. just check the compat. table. you will see what i mean. where you mean exactly? - - multitecc....hmm dunno - - hifi (both) had some dlinks when i last checked - - top vision has some hama stuff, which i have no idea what's exactly inside and wouldn't buy - - telindus ... there i bought a zyxel-b100 (11mbit) for scanning purposes :-) but telindus is far too expensive.... i got my new netgear for far far far less in germany than that old 11mbit zyxel at telindus.. anyway :-) i would check that bureautic which is near the belle etoile - --> if you come form the city and drive straight down the route d'arlon to the belle etoile, it's on the left.... they have some choice in wifi stuff too or maybe you have some luck at the pc-spezialist thnx, u 2! oh.... well it's just a stupid under construction flash anim. the domain only gets used for mails. it's my brother's domain... the flash movie doesn't seem to work for me neither in konqi 3.2 the movie has been generated with flash4... dunno my home is at simon.trypill.org nothing there yet though, except a gallery with some pics. (soon to be finished ;-) ) cheerz - -- regards, Georges Toth

begin Friday 05 March 2004 08:15, Eric Dondelinger quote: I'm right now toying around with one of these cards (A Dlink DWL 650+). I am using the FOSS driver, but I have the following problem: - the drivers inserts fine, no crashes, ... - but the card doesn't see my Accesspoint, even though ESSID and channel correspond. No WEP is configured. The access point is a KTI KW-111. The AP had previously worked with a different card, so by itself, the AP should be ok. I also tried ndiswrapper with the card, but unfortunately the card's NDIS drivers need a couple of symbols which are not yet supported by ndiswrapper. Anybody has any ideas? Thanks, Alain

begin Friday 05 March 2004 11:18, Eric Dondelinger quote: Yes, indeed ;-) In the AP, they use Atmel. No idea what they use in their cards. The AP can be configured in Linux using an SNMP client (no Web interface though :-( ) [...] 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. Alain

On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 09:07, Alain Knaff wrote: A few (generic) questions - if I only need the WLAN to connect two PCs which I can't connect to each other otherwise, do I _need_ an AP? - how can I secure my internal LAN ? prevent war drivers from using my net, my IP etc... - is an AP necessary? is it possible to secure it or to limit access to specific ETH adresses? S -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Serge Marelli, Luxembourg E-mail : serge.marelli(a)linux.lu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LiLux, Luxembourg LUG : http://www.linux.lu/ Defending Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 intel announced a week ago or two that they will be releasing linux drivers really soon. some more time ago their plans were to release firt bin-only drivers and later the source. i dunno if that has changed now. anyway.... i dont like centrino, i need horse power rorrr rooorr rorr :-D - -- regards, Georges Toth

On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 19:52, Georges Toth wrote: it's interesting as I was having the same idea. I noticed at Excell(a)concorde.bertrange.lu ;) that they're selling two brands of PCI wireless adapters (nic), one is US robotics (which is the one recommended by the salesbot and the other I forgot the name. Both do the 802.11g etc... go up to 54Mbps, the USR one seems to have an extra feature allowing it to reach 100Mbps (which is officially why the bot was recommending it). that's all I can provide. S -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Serge Marelli, Luxembourg E-mail : serge.marelli(a)linux.lu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LiLux, Luxembourg LUG : http://www.linux.lu/ Defending Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/

Hi Georges, On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Georges Toth wrote: Yup, seen the /. article - I only seriously doubt that this is done by Intel themselves, i.e. even if it's an Intel employee that's writing this, doesn't mean the company is behind it. The guy has no doc to go from, nothing - that's definitely not what I'd expect from an officially supported driver. As for the SlashDot writeup, it wouldn't (by far) be the first time that it is not entirely accurate (put nicely). To me, this looks much more like what happened with the TI ACX 100 chipset - people got fed up with the lack of Linux (or *BSD or whatever) driver, and started up a project for themselves, not waiting for anything from the manufacturer. Greets, Eric

Hi Pascal, On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Pascal Steichen wrote: Isn't that a bit early? The thing is very far from complete, doesn't even properly work without WEP etc. May be interesting to our WLAN code hackers though - anyone? If you do a Centrino WLAN page, do include links for ndiswrapper and the (commercial) Linuxant DriverLoader - those at least are supposed to get the job done right now. Greets, Eric (working on *ç%&/ Solaris right now)