From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 19:21:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 19:21:31 -0500 Received: from blackdog.wirespeed.com ([208.170.106.25]:7941 "EHLO blackdog.wirespeed.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 19:21:13 -0500 Message-ID: <3A74B59A.5070502@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 18:13:14 -0600 From: Joe deBlaquiere Organization: Red Hat, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001107 Netscape6/6.0 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael H. Warfield" CC: John Jasen , Mike Pontillo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Support for 802.11 cards? In-Reply-To: <20010128182358.F23716@alcove.wittsend.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org There is a rather informative discussion of wireless support at : http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.html Though possibly a little out of date, the author of this obviously did their research. Kudos! -- Joe Michael H. Warfield wrote: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 05:07:33PM -0500, John Jasen wrote: > >> On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Mike Pontillo wrote: > > >>> I was wondering what 802.11 PCI cards anyone knows of that run >>> under Linux-2.4. (or 2.2 for that matter) >> > >> I _think_ a good many of the 802.11 wireless ISA and PCI cards are just >> bus to PCMCIA adapters, so it would be a question of whether or not the >> PCMCIA card is supported and if the bridge is supported. > > > Last I knew (straight from the Lucent people), the ISA bridge > card worked fine and the PCI card did NOT work at all. I've since > confirmed that, first hand, myself (I currently have the ISA bridge in > operation) on the 2.2 kernels. The ISA bridge also works on the 2.4 > kernels but I have not retested the PCI bridge on 2.4. The Lucent > people claim that the Linux pcmcia people are aware of the problem. > > Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/