[wplug] Wireless PCI Cards

[Jason Carr]

I've got a Netgear MA311 (not a MA311+ or something like that...)
that works great.  I'm using the HostAP drivers, which work wonders.
I also upgraded the firmware.

http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=50222007

lspci -v

00:06.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor Prism 2.5 Wavelan
chipset (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Harris Semiconductor Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
        Memory at eddfe000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2


hostap can be found at: 

http://hostap.epitest.fi/

I am only using WEP encryption, not WPA as my workstations don't
support it without extra work.  I am using the development release,
which at this point is 0.2.3 for the driver.  You do need to be
understanding of how the kernel works and atleast have the kernel
sources available for the driver, as it's loaded as a module.

You should probably flash your card to enable a bunch of cool stuff
like MAC filtering and such.  Here are instructions on how to do so:

http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/

As with anything including the word "flash" you should be careful
and don't do it if you can't stand to lose a card... however, this
is my success story! :)

http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/stories/Jason_Carr_Netgear_MA311_PCI.txt

If you have any more questions, feel free to email me in private or
to the public group.

- Jason


On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 09:04:50PM -0700, Brad Hoover wrote:
> Hello Folks,
> 
> I've be lurking about on the list on and off for a
> while.  I finally have some new hardware and plan to
> get SUSE or something else on it!  I have a wireless
> lan at home and was hoping someone could suggest a
> 802.11b pci network card that will run in linux and is
> not terribly difficult to get working (since I'm still
> rather new to this). 
> 
> Thanks very much,
> 
> Brad
> 
> 
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jason (jason at flacid.org)